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title: Brainshit
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2021-04-25 23:02:12 +00:00
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Brainshit is my personal blog, with some occasional posts from other people
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I have given access to. My best friend used to write with me in the early
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years, but is now just an avid reader. Lord Vlad joined me there after we
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got to know each other through [habitica](./habitica.html).
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2021-03-22 22:38:46 +00:00
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2021-04-25 23:02:12 +00:00
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Brainshit is now part of the [cybrecluster](cybrecluster/).
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## History
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* 2009-2010: A very blue and orange website hosted on Freeheberg, using code
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from a PHP tutorial on the *Site du Zéro*
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([OpenClassrooms](https://openclassrooms.com/)'s old name), and with
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[.tk](https://dot.tk) domain name.
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* 2010-2012: Renamed it from my old nickname to *BubbleLand*, redesigned it by
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filling it with `<img>` tags and scanning drawings from a notebook, and moved
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to Kelio.org, a French non-profit.
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* 2013-2015: Made the initial design using [Amaya](https://www.w3.org/Amaya/),
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then integrated it again into the old PHP tutorial code. Moved to Hostinger,
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another free PHP hosting thing. Rewrote the whole admin page using jQuery UI
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once I had learned it during an internship and even tried to make a JSON API.
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* 2015-now: Rewrote from scratch using things I learnt from doing a PHP project
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at school and reusing that project in an internship. Articles can have just
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a summary, or a summary and content, or a summary and chapters. A simple
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permissions system is available, as well as comment moderation, private
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messaging between writers and an idea board.
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## Next rewrite
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As per my [cybrecluster](cybrecluster/) rules, I want to move Brainshit away
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from PHP and MariaDB and use a static site. I wanted to do that long before I
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even thought about the cybrecluster. I had written a Python exporter that took
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in a MariaDB database export and generated Markdown files and some tar.gz
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archives for the features that I would drop during the transition.
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It took me a while to decide, but I chose to just not include comments at all
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in the next version of Brainshit. It will just be articles, and that's all.
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We got very few comments, half of those were spam, and replying was hard since
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there were no email notifications. If we want replies, we'll just publish our
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email addresses or other contact info. This makes a static site much easier
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to consider; the few solutions available for comments either require me to host
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another service that gets backed by a database somewhere, and the whole point
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was to remove the dependency on binary files, or require me and the readers to
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have GitHub accounts, which is not acceptable considering the fact that GitHub
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is an American company, owned by Microsoft, and makes questionable choices
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regarding its clients.
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I had considered at one point rewriting Brainshit in Python with Django, before
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coming up with the cybrecluster and deciding that Brainshit is simply not large
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enough to require something non-static. While I definitely am able to pull off
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that rewrite, I don't want to host it.
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I am struggling to find the static site generator that will allow me to make my
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transition. I was considering moving Brainshit further away from a blog and
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more into a wiki, but now that I have this wiki, this feels less relevant;
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these change of plans definitely slowed me down. For now, I am considering
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using [Zola](https://getzola.org).
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## Article ideas
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* Going to a public library felt empowering
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* Coding for myself or for others
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* Introduction on the Lua script generating SQL
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* One-off shell scripts, immediate usage
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* Learning can be transferred to PKM
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* Personal knowledge management
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* tilde.town
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* breadpunk.club
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* twtxt-registry-client
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* Urbex adventures in Grenoble
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* Minetest
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* A d7 throw costing 400 billion euros
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* Nomic
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* A more abstract approach to ITSB
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* On imperfection: "Le talent d'Achille"
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* How many points do we get by shooting every basketball in existence
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through a hoop at once?
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* Literate programming
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* A conclusion on my use of the [integrity report](./integrity-report.html)
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* Projects that do not follow an integrity report or that do not
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seem to matter in some kind of productivity methodology aren't always
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negative distractions, they can also be just *hobbies* that we do for fun.
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