markjgsmith

2020/11/25 #

cat << EOF > Linkblog.io is dead, long live linkblogging

Linkblog.io the minimalist link curation tool, the Saas I spent 3 years building, is no longer live. All active users have been contacted and I’ve decommissioned the site.

Though the site was a tremendous success in terms of meeting my personal learning and development goals, building a robust SaaS from soup to nuts, ultimately I didn’t get the traction as far as user base that I had hoped for. Continuing to maintain the site didn’t make sense because it wasn’t generating any income.

I’m still linkblogging!

Update: the linkblog is now located on my main website domain.

I’ve been experimenting with Jamstack, Serverless and GitHub Actions and have built a prototype linkblog static site generator that I’m using every day. It builds 10 years of content in just a few seconds. It’s totally serverless. It’s pretty sweet.

I’ve been blown away with the possibilities that the jamstack opens up for creating custom content workflows.

I’ve also started a weekly newsletter where I share the best posts from the linkblog.

The general theme is javascript / tech / web development, but I also blend in some other topics from time to time.

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All the best. #

Today’s links:

  • Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world’s second richest person behind Jeff Bezoswww.theverge.com #

  • Microsoft Edge improved copy and paste will cause headaches - Pasting a URL into the browser address bar will paste the page’s title as a link to the real URL instead of just pasting the URLwww.slashgear.com #

  • Linus Torvalds on the new Mac M1 chips - “I’d absolutely love to have one if it just ran Linux”www.zdnet.com #

  • Spinlaunch's ginormous centrifuge plans to slingshot rockets into spacewww.syfy.com #

  • The curl web infrastructure - Great writeup, they handle a lot of data!daniel.haxx.se #

  • 🚀 New Post: Linkblog.io is dead, long live linkblogging - Death is so overratedblog.markjgsmith.com #

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