2016-02-10 (Wednesday)
Writing
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Planning for closure
Maybe we should think about how long we expect our websites to live before we start making them.
Links
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AOL Search
Using user search data released by AOL in 2006, a day-by-day “story” using one anonymous woman’s daily search queries.
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How To Deploy Multiple PHP Applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean
A rare example of deploying multiple sites to one server with Ansible.
Tweets
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Reliving the good-old days of setting up my vim configuration by making Atom work just like my vim configuration.
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@gwire Every time I display “all” in my reader I’m surprised at all that old stuff.
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@jaggeree A pleasure! Out of my head into yours :)
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If I ever rewrite my site I’d like to add an extra field for blog posts, `rss_bonus_content`, that would only appear in the RSS version.
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File that one in the “do as I say, not as I do” folder.
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I wrote about deciding and planning for a website’s death, or immortality, before starting work on it: gyford.com/phil/writing/2…
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@bensummers [The sound of several things whizzing over my head] But thanks :) Starting to think I should pay more for one server per site…
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@adamamyl I haven’t noticed them, but I’ll have another look, ta.
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Maybe I’m making life hard for myself but given the power of cheap servers and requirements of small sites, it doesn’t seem unreasonable.
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If anyone’s used Ansible to deploy multiple sites to one server (rather than one site to multiple servers) I’d love to see how you did it.
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@alicebartlett @denisewilton Great minds, etc. I should scroll to the top before replying.
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@denisewilton Are you loving it?
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Trying to think of a good metaphor for two people using Twitter to argue about whether short, pithy sayings disguise more subtle issues.
Liked tweets
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My mind is still blown at the term NARP