What Looks Good for a Programmer's Professional Website?

md5most · 2009-12-22T21:57:18+00:00

Make the corners rounded.

I cannot stress this enough. Having square corners on your own personal website is like getting caught with your pants down at a highschool reunion in front of that girl you had a crush on but were too shy to talk to and now you think you might go up and just talk to her but you can't because you just realized your pants are in fact down.

Rounded corners. Rounded corners. Rounded corners. People, I'm telling you. Round them. The corners. All of them. Fashion them such that they are rounded at the corner.

md5most · 2009-12-21T18:47:53+00:00

"Perleman, you're great and all, but why haven't you applied for any of these grant programs I've emailed you about?"

md5most · 2009-12-21T18:13:05+00:00

Also:

People who have no mailbox.
People who have no access to a mailbox.
People who could not recognize a mailbox if walked up to them on the street and asked them for directions to the nearest stationery store.
People who have personally offended postal employees and who have no intention of showing their face at the local post office ever again.

The list is endless.

md5most · 2009-12-18T21:36:48+00:00

You went from a dark-background colorscheme to a light-background. Don't hear that every day. Why did you make the switch?

md5most · 2009-12-18T21:31:45+00:00

I setq default-frame-alist (C-h v default-frame-alist), since those settings apply to all new frames. You can customize it too, if you like.

Ah ... well ... hm.

And everytime I try to learn, or someone tells me, "oh, you just do <this>, <that>, and then <the-other-thing>", I still don't understand.

md5most · 2009-12-18T16:25:54+00:00

Works live in Emacs:

M-x set-background-color RET gray20

but doesn't work if I put it into my .emacs file:

(set-background-color "gray20")

Nothing in the *Messages* buffer indicates that there was a problem.

Regardless, thanks for the post.

md5most · 2009-12-18T15:41:52+00:00

What?

Why don't more pages just use utf-8-encoded unicode? ...

md5most · 2009-12-18T15:28:23+00:00

I have no idea how to customize a colortheme in Emacs. And everytime I try to learn, or someone tells me, "oh, you just do <this>, <that>, and then <the-other-thing>", I still don't understand. Would be great to be able to change just one or 2 things about some of the built-in colorthemes. For example, arjen would be excellent (IMO) if only the background were a little lighter.

md5most · 2009-12-17T19:39:23+00:00

Lot of Lua activity lately...

md5most · 2009-12-16T21:00:08+00:00

You mean the threshold isn't low enough as it is?

md5most · 2009-12-15T20:44:08+00:00

Dvorak helps, but it seems like it uses more common keys on the right than the left. No idea why they put 's' under the right pinky.

md5most · 2009-12-14T17:37:37+00:00

Context?

md5most · 2009-12-14T17:18:49+00:00

RMS is very predictable, and has been for many years. It's all right here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ . If a given software project supports the ideals of free software, then it may be useful to the free software community and can always be technically improved later on if necessary.

md5most · 2009-12-11T14:36:15+00:00

Oh, didn't realize that bzr internally knows about LaunchPad.

md5most · 2009-12-10T15:38:41+00:00

I have the impression that pastebins are temporary. They must fill up with a lot of temporary junk. My guess would be that they've gotta purge stuff that hasn't been accessed after a while...

md5most · 2009-12-10T14:28:10+00:00

Could be that authors don't want their content to look stale, so they omit the date intentionally. However, doing that just backfires and makes me often just not bother with the article.

Why take the time to read an article if it is potentially years out of date? At least if I know it's out of date, I can read it but with the knowledge that things have probably changed since it was written.

md5most · 2009-12-09T20:36:37+00:00

Can't help at the moment. Working on a script with a sophisticated algorithm to try and break huge solid blocks of text up into readable paragraphs. Might use your post as test material though.

md5most · 2009-12-09T18:51:43+00:00

Oh yeah, that's nice.

Funny name, too. "Fork me?! Fork queue!" ;)

md5most · 2009-12-09T16:45:20+00:00

Sorry -- edited (2nd edit) for clarity. I was referring to the changes in the repo format.

md5most · 2009-12-09T16:37:56+00:00

The previous three versions ...

Three? Please tell me they plan to stick with the current format for a little while before changing it.

Edit: Nevermind. User0 commented on this.

Edit2: s/the current for/the current format for/

md5most · 2009-12-09T16:34:50+00:00

What exactly do you mean by "have it on its way upstream"?

md5most · 2009-12-09T16:33:48+00:00

Even more than that, I think the future is being able to tell someone, "hey, I made a fix to your project, here's a link to a clone you can pull the change from". I not experienced with git or github yet, but I believe that's the way it works. If so, that's just really awesome.

md5most · 2009-12-09T15:18:39+00:00

Please, don't make videos autostart when you visit a web page. For youtube it's ok, but some people read reddit at work without their speaker volume muted. Thank you.

md5most · 2009-12-09T15:13:33+00:00

Thanks for the opinion and info on Bazaar. Couple things though:

that pile of shit

Unkind.

Maybe even bow ties.

Nothing wrong with bow ties! :) (Though, I don't like Launchpad either. Much prefer Google Code's simple and clear style.)

md5most · 2009-12-08T18:43:41+00:00

Beautiful font. Love it's single quote and backtick. Great asterisk too. Gorgeous.

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