From 1079450ec88bcc9863d58fd0dd05e5112391bfc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: techpriest Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 21:46:36 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Bunch of changes to content, still lots to do for formatting --- Archive/gordon_brander_essay.html | 0 LogGit_whitepaper.html => LogGit_essay.html | 14 +++++++++++++- index.html | 2 +- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Archive/gordon_brander_essay.html rename LogGit_whitepaper.html => LogGit_essay.html (66%) diff --git a/Archive/gordon_brander_essay.html b/Archive/gordon_brander_essay.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/LogGit_whitepaper.html b/LogGit_essay.html similarity index 66% rename from LogGit_whitepaper.html rename to LogGit_essay.html index 7aa5556..01187e1 100644 --- a/LogGit_whitepaper.html +++ b/LogGit_essay.html @@ -16,10 +16,22 @@ You can take a project someone else started, and finish it. There's already a whole bunch of gui programs available on all major operating systems to track and manage repositories, nothing needs to be built to start. It's ready to go. -Most people are hosting their repo on some Git forge already, you can track it down, or maybe more people can start sharing the url to clone the repo. +Most people are hosting the repo for their static site on some Git forge already, you can track it down, or maybe more people can start sharing the url to clone the repo. Git does have size limitations: so you need to break up bigger projects. And even before you get to those, in order to make it easier to clone, keeping projects small and modular helps keep things manageable. You're already doing cool stuff, just start sharing it with Git; and RSS, ATOM, siloed social networks, and unwieldy Wordpress blogs become an unecessary relic of a more fragile past. + +Here's some of the sources where this idea is discussed by those much smarter than me: + +Solderpunk: Low budget P2P content distribution with git + +Gordon Brander: Saving copies of everything is like low-budget p2p + +Ploum and the Offpunk project (too much to archive here) https://ploum.net/index_all.html + +Ian Clarke and the Freenet project (again, too much to archive here) https://freenet.org/ + +And many more I'll add as I can. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 0d83143..e3eb235 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ Step 4. Congratulate yourself on making the world a more offline-friendly place! Learn More: -Check out the paper, which is just a bunch of links, because, none of this is new. +Check out the essay, which is mostly a bunch of links, because, none of this is new.