To me the effort to bring secure curves to the browser seems like an important feature for many applications. As such I am surprised how little attention from outside is given to this initiative (now 8 month old). Is there any good reason against it?
Hello, I also had a company where I was in over my head, that stressed me massively and I had to liquidate once. Before I happened to come to Osaka, where I am for 8 years now with many ups and downs.
Oh, I also have an organization here, that I am not sure what to do about. But in my case I learned from previous experience to stay cool about it and focus on the tasks ahead.
What you experience here is the weight of your own expectations. A lot of work has accumulated. You are here and you feel like it is not enough: you are not enough. I would like you to know: you are enough. Your work is sufficient and tomorrow will be another day to grow a little more.
As part of dealing with my deficits I help organize the local community here. When I arrived I didn't notice that the isolation in Japan can quickly reach dangerous levels and without social contact one can easily get sucked down a vortex.
There are many people here trying to reach out to you. Count me in as one of them. Next step is to open up - in person - to someone in a position to help you. You might not think that
this person exist (even with the offers here), but I think
you could be in for a positive surprise.
That's essentially what I had to do[1], it's not ideal but it works. I was looking at switching to Hugo, but this static site generator looks promising.
For my own usecase, Sass and syntax highlighting built-in are the things I wanted - Hugo now has highlighting built-in too though - and all of that in a single binary. I don't want to mess with virtualenvs or JS packages.
Compared to Hugo (which is what I was using until then), it has:
- the mentioned Sass compilation
- a much better template engine (I'm a bit biased there since I also wrote it)
- assets colocations: keep images etc next to the post
I also find it much easier to use than Hugo but I wrote Gutenberg for my own usecase so this point would need external validation.
I wrote a bit about the motivation when I released the initial version on my blog: https://vincent.is/announcing-gutenberg/ but I agree it should be better communicated on the landing page.
Rust is an implementation detail: it could have been done in any language compiling to a binary, I just picked the one I prefer.
This is cool, and props for scratching your own itch, but this does seem like an incremental/niche improvement over Hugo. I'm curious if you talked to the Hugo community about supporting those features? I don't mean to imply that you should have done so--"I wanted to build my own" is a totally valid reason not to bother.
I don't really like the template engine available in Go (especially the godawful one in the std) so I would have needed to write one or use pongo2 but probably wouldn't have been accepted in Hugo: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359
FWIW I'm glad you wrote this. Having looked at Jekyll alternatives before, the field is severely lacking especially in terms of static sites generators that don't immediately assume you're publishing a blog.
Watch one of the many documentaries on a good television. It's mostly just a big hole in the ground with nice colors that don't last very long because the light is constantly changing.
On top of that, depending on where you go, it's either full of tourists or has no facilities. Tourists are the worst part about the Grand Canyon and, while strictly an opinion, there are more interesting things to see.
If you do decide to go to the bottom, bring a lot of water with you. The climb back out can be labor intensive and hot. You're fine, so long as you remember to bring water. You might as well bring extra water, because there's almost always a tourist sitting there on the edge of the trail and slowly dying of thirst. So, you'll feel obligated to share your water. You might as well just bring a few extra bottles.
You'll get far better, and more comprehensive, imagery from a good documentary. It's hard to get a permit to raft the whole thing, for example. But, you can live vicariously through others and not have to deal with the tourists.
If you can't guess, I've been a half-dozen times. It hasn't once been my preferred destination. I've gone because I was in the area and at the behest of others. My first visit was on a family vacation. It's nice, but there are many other options that I personally enjoyed more. I'd just watch a documentary and make the trip a little longer so that I could go to Taos instead, but that's just me.
In my use-case I would like to offer as many structured files formats as possible. But to be sure: you can replace "structured file" with "code syntax" (example: syntax highlighting) or "natural language translation" (example: translation of a cli tool) or "database driver" (example: orm tool).
