• she/her

Principal engineer at Mercury. I've authored the Dhall configuration language, the Haskell for all blog, and countless packages and keynote presentations.

I'm a midwife to the hidden beauty in everything.

💖 @wiredaemon


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Gabriella439
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filenine
@filenine asked:

I'm trying to set up a website to blog on, and now I understand why you use Blogger. The way it's going, I'm going to spend as much time tinkering with my site as I do writing for it.

This is something I learned back when I was deciding whether or not to self-host my blog. I decided to empirically study productive bloggers who I respected to see what they did and they tended to not self-host their blog, so I followed suit. It worked out well for me! It let me focus on the task of actually blogging instead of managing my blog setup.

These days I still sometimes think about self-hosting my blog (or at least switching to a different hosting platform), but blogger has been okaaaaaaaaaay despite the fact that it's no longer hip these days. So I'm definitely the "old-ass blogger.com site" data point in the above graph.


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in reply to @fullmoon's post:

i self host my website and also actually update it / post to it regularly. we exist!!!!!

but i also run a version of jekyll that runs on a supposedly "end of life" ruby version and EoL plugins that we haven't updated in 4 or 5 years because like i give a fuck. so i fundamentally agree with the premise of "dont spend your life designing your blog's tech stack"

i think xe iaso is in the top right next to "superhuman from that big foss project" i do not know how xe writes so gods damn much while maintaining the blog infra xe runs (and writes about sometimes)

Empirical study is a great way to make a decision! It's been working well for you, too.

A few hours after I sent you the ask, I managed to fix most of the problems I was having with the site. Now I've started writing for it. I think my ideas for posts may have been too ambitious.