Blog on Huy Minh Ha

Setup Github pages as your blog

Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0700

How to setup github page as your blog? It’s actually very easy, just follow the following guides

What is Medium

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0700

Medium is a web-based service that let anyone publish articles online that was founded in 2012 by 2 founders of Twitter: Ev Williams and Biz Stone. Ev Williams said Medium was “a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends.”

According to wikipedia, medium is a blog publishing platform. While Medium might look like a standard blogging platform, it had been “designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world.” And yet “it helps you find the right audience for whatever you have to say.”. Also, Medium does not show articles in a reverse-chronological index of content like normal blogging platform.

Medium seems to do following:

Create a beautiful, simple blogging platform for everyone
Pay some people to post to the site, but not most of them
Promote the people they’ve paid along with a very small subset of everyone else.

Therefore the content on medium can be either be:

awesome if they were written by profesisonal writers who were hired and edited by professional editors
opposite of awesome if they were written by mediocre bloggers.

The differences between Medium and traditional publication are:

If the traditional publication publish anything bad or plagiarised, it reflects poorly on them.
If Medium publishes anything bad or plagiarised, it reflects poorly on the writers

Medium is good for you if:

You aren’t not going to blog a lot.
You like the Medium environment.
You aren’t in it for the money. Medium does have some paid contributors, but not for everyone.

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Embed git file to pelican

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0700

Writing articles in github pages is nice, because you have github repository with all the nice features for document management, however sometimes it’s not where I want my articles to reside. For instance, I want the articles about git to be in a separate git repository.

I have several solutions for this problem:

I could duplicate the article. But I won’t do this.
I could store the articles as gist like this:

[gist:id=dc8b7c536d0fe9c7003f]

But I can’t store a lot of related things in gist because that’s the role of a real git repo.

I could store the articles in the normal git repo, and embed it into the article in github page. I chose this approach for long articles. Like this:

There’s already a nice tool to do this: gist-it. Using it is really simple, just clone the repo and deploy it to an AppEngine instance. The downside of this is it does not generate html code for Markdown.

The best solution for me is to use a plugin for embedding git file into pelican like this:

minhhh/wiki/sample.md

Creating this blog

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0700

When creating this blog, I used the following references: