On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog entry.

You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem is I don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one (the off the shelf ones are universally awful imo) but it isn't high priority so... yeah.

I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party service or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since at least blog blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random stuff, but just.... blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for WordPress and friends.

On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 00:27:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog entry.
>
> You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem is I don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one (the off the shelf ones are universally awful imo) but it isn't high priority so... yeah.
>
> I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party service or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since at least blog blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random stuff, but just.... blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for WordPress and friends.

You could put something up on

http://www.codeproject.com/

On 7/5/2013 5:27 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post
>> into a blog entry.
>
> You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem is I
> don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one (the off the shelf ones are
> universally awful imo) but it isn't high priority so... yeah.
>
> I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party service
> or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since at least blog
> blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random stuff, but just....
> blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for WordPress and friends.

Just register adamruppe.com, and use Ddoc!

On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 00:27:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party service or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since at least blog blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random stuff, but just.... blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for WordPress and friends.

I used to think similarly, and spent years starting and never finishing websites using all sorts of different solutions. Finally I realized that, to run a blog, WordPress was actually by far the simplest solution.

YMMV of course. I've never felt the need to write my own plugins so never had to deal with the painful side of WordPress.

Am 06.07.2013 02:27, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
> On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your
>> initial post into a blog entry.
>
> You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem
> is I don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one (the off the
> shelf ones are universally awful imo) but it isn't high priority so...
> yeah.
>
> I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party
> service or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since
> at least blog blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random
> stuff, but just.... blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for
> WordPress and friends.

It could be placed on the Wiki

On 7/5/13 11:57 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 06.07.2013 02:27, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
>> On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your
>>> initial post into a blog entry.
>>
>> You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem
>> is I don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one (the off the
>> shelf ones are universally awful imo) but it isn't high priority so...
>> yeah.
>>
>> I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party
>> service or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since
>> at least blog blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random
>> stuff, but just.... blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for
>> WordPress and friends.
>
> It could be placed on the Wiki

Perfect! Adam, no more excuses :o).

Andrei

On 6-7-2013 08:57, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 06.07.2013 02:27, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
>> On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your
>>> initial post into a blog entry.
>>
>> You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the problem
>> is I don't have a blog! I'm slowly working on coding one (the off the
>> shelf ones are universally awful imo) but it isn't high priority so...
>> yeah.
>>
>> I really should either finish it or just give in and use a third party
>> service or something (the closest I've come is this newsgroup!), since
>> at least blog blabbing would be *some* documentation for half my random
>> stuff, but just.... blargh, words cannot describe my hatred for
>> WordPress and friends.
>
> It could be placed on the Wiki
Yes!

On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:46:42 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> YMMV of course. I've never felt the need to write my own plugins so never had to deal with the painful side of WordPress.

That's really what killed me on it. I have one recurring work client who loves Wordpress, but always wants it customized in some way. New themes, new plugins, customized plugins from the web, etc.

And omg what a pain. BTW if you look at my github, you'll see a single php file, web.d.php, the main reason that exists was to ease integration of Wordpress with the core D application.


But even the user side doesn't impress me. The flash uploader they default to never works right for me, and it seems to me that to do anything beyond plain text, you have to write some html (or their silly [shortcodes]) anyway!

And then to top it off, WP is sloooow.

Seems like vibe.d runs a blog http://vibed.org/blog/ doesn't it suit you?

On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:04:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> BTW I'll push another commit to jsvar.d and script.d over the weekend. I got return/break/continue working now (in the cases I've tried at least, simple ones).


I just pushed another commit to github that includes this and other stuff. I quickly slapped together some more features to the script interpreter and the needed support to var for them.

The comments in the file explain most of it, but short answer is it is looking more and more like a D/javascript hybrid so if you just try something, it might work.