This is a Gist for stuffing my quick notes and thoughts in here, also serving as development tracker for bits.
Now bits has moved to WordPress.
Key points:
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README.md
isn't very important since it isn't a note, but it may be used for some indexing or linking to other years. -
Each note is a comment, currently group year's notes in one Gist. No need to title each note, too much effort for reference when comment link is enough.
Originally, I thought of using pattern like
YYYYnnn
, year with 3-digit number. But it's really not necessary. Not even me would actually refer to the notes. -
Must have proper formatting capability, like Markdown.
Although these are just notes, but I would prefer formatting them well. Not tweets, nor blog posts.
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Must be able to scroll down a single page to view multiple rendered notes.
I wished to have each note their own page, but couldn't really find any easy solution to meet my needs, so settling down in Gist comments works best for now.
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Okay to lose these notes, they may not be worth reading again.
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Okay not to have proper search function since each note is a comment.
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Okay not to have separate comment thread for each note.
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Okay not to have commit history for notes.
Ideas:
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The first note is a bit long due to the emerge log, it might be a good idea to have another Gist to store those log stuff, like
bits.2013.bits
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keyword' bookmark for comment form
Unfortunately, the form doesn't have ID.
Why do Mozilla (and Google and many other companies) always think people have to know how to code?
The goal for "loosen the gatekeeper's grip" that I could agree, but really people who can code and have talent, already know how to proceed. We have too much bad code + websites around already, no need to add more.
They should instead think about how to lower the requirement of using the web. That's computer and its processing power. Think about how fat Mozilla's browser is. Think about how not to ask user to upgrade or buy a new computer in order to smoothly run their several generations before the current browser.
Think about those, Mozilla.
PS. just a day or two before I posted Tired of these CSS CPU suckers, if they have to teach, teach people simplicity sometimes is better for knowledge and useful contents.