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So you can talk shit with zero consequences? How wonderful for you, and how terrible for everyone around you.

As someone who actually writes haiku, I hate the "write a haiku" ChatGPT example as it produces these stilted, lifeless eighth grade poems that people nevertheless copy-paste into their work.

Yes, and everybody here thinks you're a brave little boy. Have a lollipop.

schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb

Why is it that in the gutter of every HN post there's some schlorby shlub desperately trying to seem cool?

Hell no. I can smell the scam from here.

Those dozen different services are servers, that you chose from.

I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go.

These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.

True, but (a) it's a fun project, and (b) I wanted something just for my notes, so I can add note-specific commands and generally treat my notes directory as a database I can use Sonse to work with.

Thanks, I'll figure out some screenshots. The list command would display all notes, but maybe I could add some kind of pagination feature. If you have specific ideas, consider adding them to the tracker! [1]

[1] https://github.com/rattlerake/sonse/issues

I prefer Mercurial, and as a hobbyist I can afford to stay with it. I know Git has GitHub and all the connectivity of that, but I just truly dislike Git.

This is my exact method. Render Markdown into HTML, rsync up to the Caddy server.

Free services never truly are, and I don't want to build something on a foundation I don't pay for. Corporate generosity always runs out eventually.

How are any of these simpler than "Get VM, install server, rsync files"? Why is the solution always "sign up for a proprietary service that might not exist next year and rig up a bunch of fragile webhooks"?

Also, I don't use Git or Github.

I blog about Avatar The Last Airbender, using a (very simple) custom static site generator:

[1] Site: https://rattlerake.com

[2] Code: https://hg.sr.ht/~rattlerake/rattlerake

It's actually one GET per second, ten POSTs per hour.

Thanks!

Can you give me a concrete example? I'd like to implement this capability, but I'm not sure what you're asking.

This isn't one note, it's dozens at least. I wanted a centralised way to organise them, and I wanted to try making something myself. Working on all these files by hand would be tedious and error-prone.

I'm a Windows user, which means dotfiles are even uglier for me. For an app that just needs two tiny variables, environs are the much cleaner solution.

Okay, well I'll keep calling it a command line to avoid snobs like you. Thanks for the tip!

Thanks!

I wrote about that in the FAQ: https://github.com/posce/posce#why-use-this-instead-of-lsgre...

## Why use this instead of ls/grep/wget/etc?

Posce is one app using one system on one directory. It's a very focused app, and that focus gives it a level of stability and uniformity I enjoy. Also, by using a single notes directory, you can use disambiguated names and get incredible brevity when entering commands.

I use a single notes directory and I prefer disambiguation to tab-completion, which I why I built it this way. I guess its advantages aren't universal, but then again what is?