Some applications pretend that everything is immaculate, by hiding their mess (and they typically don't do a great job of it: look at many Linux-first program ported to Windows). There is little rhyme or reason to any of it: many applications never tell the user they are putting these files HERE or THERE, and if the user wants to move them around, they aren't given a choice in the matter.Īpplications regularly disregard platform conventions (many ironies abound, to be detailed below) even if these conventions are clearly documented, some go out of their way to do their own thing.
Sweet home 3dfor windows 8 software#
Software that spews configuration files, temporary and cache files, generated and save files, catalogue files, downloaded files everywhere. If you answer 'maybe', or even 'yes', then welcome to the world of software, where your home is violated on a regular basis. Would you still use it, but live with the compromise that your home is not exactly how you want it? Suppose that this vacuum cleaner was given to you for free, anyway. What if it stopped working if you changed where you put its dust bag, or swapped it out for a new dust bag? What if there existed a vacuum cleaner that stopped working if you plugged it into a different socket to the one the manufacturer set out in the manual? You can put its dust bag anywhere you want, too. Or in the washroom, or in the service balcony, or the backyard. You have your own volition to put these wherever you want, and set them up however you want. You buy things to decorate, maintain, and improve your home: paintings, photographs, vases, light fixtures, sofas, chairs, ovens, vacuum cleaners. It is where these things are supposed to be where you want them, and how you want them to be. It is where you have complete liberty over everything: what you do, when you do things, how you do them, what things you have. It is your place of refuge, and a sanctum from the mess and chaos of the outside world. It is where you're supposed to be most comfortable in.
I resonate strongly with the author's sentiment, and more importantly, dislike 'opinionated' software that likes to do what its author thinks is best instead of following system conventions.
What really inspired me to get started was Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located.
Sweet home 3dfor windows 8 install#
I've been meaning to write this for a very long time-more or less since I ever started using Linux properly four years ago, discovered ls -A, and realised what a clutter ~ was.Īt the same time I noticed that the situation on my Windows install was even worse. The only thing (so far) I've noticed that is missing is auto-numbered headings, although that's apparently a matter of CSS styling. If I ever do prepare a blog, it should be fairly straightforward to migrate these posts to it: they're just Markdown, after all.
I can even pin these gists to my GitHub profile, which is also very nice. However, it turns out that I still need to pick up non-trivial HTML and CSS to make it look like anything but a website from the 1990s.įor now, though, GitHub-flavoured Markdown handles almost all use-cases I can think of (embedded images, this spoiler you've opened, complicated lists, in-line HTML for Ctrl, in-line $\LaTeX$.), and GitHub Gists renders Markdown as formatted text anyway, so what else do I need? NET Core-based static site generator, and therefore have experimented with Statiq.Dev Web. Of course, I want one, but I also want to use a fully. This was supposed to be a blog post, but I have neither the knowledge, nor the time, nor the energy to set up a nice statically-generated blog like everyone else does on Hacker News or proggit.
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