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New comment by zacssite in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

zacssite — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:16:09 +0000

https://zacs.site/

I write about cybersecurity, leadership, weightlifting, and writing, with a few other topics thrown in here and there.

SoC Metrics, Part I: Foundational Metrics

zacssite — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 22:18:02 +0000

Article URL: https://zacs.site/blog/soc-metrics-part-i.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32132004

Points: 2

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Show HN: Swig, a monolithic, multithreaded, micro web framework

zacssite — Mon, 11 May 2020 22:23:31 +0000

Article URL: https://zacs.site/blog/announcing-swig.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23147827

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zacssite in "Ask HN: Best Free Python Editor?"

zacssite — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:46:48 +0000

I do a lot of Python development, both at work and for fun at home. Can’t recommend Sublime Text enough.

New comment by zacssite in "Linear Exeuction, Multiprocessing, and Multithreading IO-Bound Tasks in Python"

zacssite — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 22:21:22 +0000

Linear felt right when I was writing it, for some reason, but you're right. Fixed.

New comment by zacssite in "Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping"

zacssite — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 16:43:25 +0000

No, didn't think to do that. Part of the reason I went to all this trouble, though, was to go through the process of building something myself, that I could run myself--and that, by extension, anyone else could do, too.

Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping

zacssite — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:21:18 +0000

Article URL: https://zacs.site/blog/building-a-syllable-dictionary-with-python.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21162734

Points: 31

# Comments: 2

How to Run Your Own (Static) Website (For Free)

zacssite — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:23:37 +0000

Article URL: https://zacs.site/blog/how-to-own-your-platform.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20425053

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zacssite in "Run Your Own Website"

zacssite — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 19:32:02 +0000

It comes down to how much time and effort you want to invest into learning a new system, which should depend on how many of the advanced features those systems enable that you will use. For me, that answer was as little as possible and zero. I just need a good static site generator. There are a bunch to choose from these days, but fewer back when I was faced with this decision in the early 2000s, so I wrote my own. If you don't need anything flashy, use something like my engine (First Crack: https://zacs.site/projects.html#firstCrack) to build the site and GitHub Pages to serve it. If there's a certain feature you want that a combo like that does not allow for, find the simplest engine that meets your needs, learn to use it, then go from there. Most of the big names are pretty good these days, so you can't really go wrong no matter which you choose.

Writing vs. Writing (2011)

zacssite — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://shawnblanc.net/2011/02/writing-vs-writing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363655

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zacssite in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

zacssite — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 03:46:09 +0000

I work ~12 hours a day, but in my free time, I like to work on a lightweight, full-featured blog engine. It’s fast, easy to use, platform-agnostic, and I’m pretty proud of it. I ported it to Python 3 last month, and I have some big plans soon. https://zacs.site/blog/first-crack-release-notes-0619.html

Show HN: First Crack, a simple static blog engine in Python

zacssite — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:19:27 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbucket.org/zjszewczyk/firstcrack-public/src/master/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20100447

Points: 44

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