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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · about 5 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

On This Day mentions (6)

• Editing Memeulous into Historical Events 104/365 - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Also, when I'm out of ideas I go onto the website onthisday.com, it's really good to get some ideas and you can get some cool little facts and history bits. Also if you would like to suggest one send it in PM's or under this comment. Source: about 2 years ago

• I'm uploading a YouTube short everyday, (except the subtitles) it's completely automated w/ GPT, Stable Diffusion, elevenlabs, NodeJS and FFMPEG

  A rough outline of an event (eventually I'm lurking a lot on onthisday.com). Source: about 2 years ago

• Soldier Stone

  I found that a date can be extracted from a spot by using simple math, like I used to extract the yr Fenn won his turquoise cuff playing poker. A good site to use for side variety & ease of use is: On This Day (in history) onthisday.com. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Selenium Trouble - 'please pass in a Service object'

  Okay so dan youre the man and I was able to get my username and password entered but am having trouble 'clicking' or pressing the login button. Unfortunately that website has been archived so I have moved onto [onthisday.com](https://onthisday.com) where ill enter a date and figure out how to press the search button to see the results. Source: over 3 years ago

• Can you search for people who were born and died on two specific days?

  A friend and I just spent a while looking for someone who either was born on my birthday and died on his or vice versa (our "fusion character", if you will). No dice. We went through the Wikipedia and onthisday.com pages for both births and deaths on the respective days. Is there any sort of database or program or resource or anything you guys know of that might help us out? Source: over 3 years ago

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