Another push to get people off #substack is prompting IT professionals to write posts about how easy it is to set up your own site.
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@SJohnRoss@dice.camp @Taskerland@dice.camp I needed to speak to a plumber about irrigation for a large garden a few years ago, and yeah. Whole new world of plumbing knowledge and terminology I didn't understand layered on top of horticultural terminology I didn't understand.
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@Taskerland @SJohnRoss "It's a thing grandad's car had. Why are you crying?"
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@Taskerland @SJohnRoss "It's a thing grandad's car had. Why are you crying?"
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S. John Ross Indeed. There is, of course, a relevant XKCD for this.
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IT is a really interesting profession... No other profession seems to produce people who think that the highly-technical skills for which they are well paid are just common sense.
Even when Gordon Ramsay made TV shows yelling at rubbish cooks his standpoint was generally a) why didn't you learn this at catering college, b) why haven't your previous employers helped you to develop these skills, and c) why did you decide to open a restaurant despite having no training?
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@SJohnRoss @Taskerland
I'm an IT person who never learned to speak Martian well. It's a weird spot to be in. I can do the work. I can explain it in mostly lay terms. I can't explain it in Martian. Thank cats people are willing to listen to me to realize I do know it. -
@vdonnut IT professional with a blog: "It only takes 5 minutes to CSEM an A2M. Once the bespoke kernel's set-up and you've stabilised the quantum-tunnelling from your off-site server it's all doable using the drop-down menus in your bloopi account"
Me, googling acronyms: "Arse to mouth?"
@Taskerland @vdonnut I hosted and did my own blog (wordpress, not from scratch) for a couple of years in 2011 and even I have no idea what the hell these kind of posts are talking about within a couple of sentences
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Another push to get people off #substack is prompting IT professionals to write posts about how easy it is to set up your own site.
I beg you to stop. You are not helping. People are reading your posts and thinking 'that seems really complicated... I can' t do that'.
Every single post about self-hosting is literally that Simpsons gag about fixing the foundations to your own house "And if you don't have ceramic stuck-o-lath then aluminium stuck-o-lath will work just as well!"
@Taskerland 100%. I'm an IT professional and could host a lot of things myself but the last thing I want to do is more work in my off time. No way I'm going to try and convince anyone outside of the field to do that shit.
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@Taskerland @vdonnut I hosted and did my own blog (wordpress, not from scratch) for a couple of years in 2011 and even I have no idea what the hell these kind of posts are talking about within a couple of sentences
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