Blogging on Paper (2017)

https://conroy.org/blogging-on-paper

by luu • 1 year ago

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WesolyKubeczek• 1 year ago

For a moment I thought it was about a tech bro discovering diaries, but it’s about Dropbox Paper.

1f60c• 1 year ago

I had the same exact thought. It's good to remember that writing ≠ publishing[0].

I'm not sure if it matters much in this case, but the OP is (2017).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316443

shreddit• 1 year ago

I thought it the predecessor of this https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website

where someone writes blog posts on paper and trained an ai to scan the handwriting and post it online.

malfist• 1 year ago

That is fascinating. I love the thought that went into it. I journal and enjoy the physicality of writing. Maybe I should sign up to run my astrophotography blog that way

beej71• 1 year ago

I switched to cursive in my journal about a month ago. Can't wait until OCR+AI gets good enough for that.

rednafi• 1 year ago

*Dropbox Paper

reactivematter• 1 year ago

Or you may use Obsidian with Syncthing and write notes or blog on any device.

6stringmerc• 1 year ago

This is why generic names for products / services are such a bad move - I did blogging on paper while in jail. It's called a journal. Now when I get my resources together, I'm going to scan those 300 or so pages and upload them to Medium and transcribe them digitally for easier reading.

Obviously "Paper" for this guy didn't work if we're reading a post from 2017.

And no, even with the tablets provided by Tarrant County Corrections, blogging was not available.

cocodill• 1 year ago

Yes, many people did that back then, it was called a newspaper column.

LorenzoGood• 1 year ago

Please dont use medium.

julianeon• 1 year ago

Seems a bit overly complicated for a blog, no? Like there's a HUGE middle ground between like "blogging on pager" and "posts in Markdown using vim, generating HTML using Jekyll, and serving the content via a small web app in Go on Heroku."

I use AWS Amplify with JS - sometimes React, sometimes Svelte - (although there's plenty of alternatives) and you can easily make it this simple.

1. Write post in markdown.

2. Push to git.

Done: it will appear looking perfectly nice as a blog post. Basically only his first step: "write posts in Markdown using vim".

Blogging on Paper (2017)

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