This author's posts are always ridiculously sensationalized and usually lean on a bunch of misrepresentations to try to make everything sound more dramatic.
For this one, he took the time to write a hyperbolic 2500-word rant using both high-minded language and profanity to compare the topic to human rights violations and abusive relationships, but couldn't find the time to remove the TWO Twitter accounts linked in their sidebar, or even actually delete those accounts.
I just deleted it yesterday, and I'm updating the sidebar now (and also switching from Jekyll to Hugo in the process, which is why it's taking a little while). (I also need to update the index page, and probably some others. Will grep.)
I'm sorry you didn't like it. I wrote about it because it was a big deal for me, having been a daily user of the site for a huge chunk of my adult life on the internet.
Twitter was one of those things that started out somewhat hackerly and interesting, welcoming bots and API users and third party clients, and is now a horse of a different color entirely. I thought that warranted a post, because it made me sad to see something really cool and fun become a victim of its own scale and popularity.
If you've never tried it before, I highly recommend writing your own static site generator from scratch. It's fun, and you can get a long ways with a few lines of code. Here's one I did this week: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy.io/blob/master/ss...
There’s a “hugo import jekyll” command, but it doesn’t import my theme, so there’s going to be a fair amount of porting it looks like. It brought all of the posts over, though, so that’s good.
Using drone with caching for rubygems got my jekyll builds down to under 2 minutes (I use docker) but I imagine hugo will be under a second once I get it switched over. I’ll probably just commit the binary to the repo.
Shoot me an email if you’d like me to share the sources.
For this one, he took the time to write a hyperbolic 2500-word rant using both high-minded language and profanity to compare the topic to human rights violations and abusive relationships, but couldn't find the time to remove the TWO Twitter accounts linked in their sidebar, or even actually delete those accounts.