Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
Serious question: why do people, software developers actually, use Medium for blogging?<p>- they nag mobile users to install a shitty app "optimized for readers" because apparently the browser is no longer suitable for freaking blogs<p>- they nag desktop users to login<p>- they are in fact not GDPR compliant<p>- the downloaded pages are huge, the browser ends up downloading and interpreting over 2 megabytes of crap in order to display 3 paragraphs of text<p>- the domain name isn't yours so you can lose your content and your identity and it isn't easy to port to other platforms<p>Why do you put up with this shit?<p>I have a blog built with a static site generator since 2008, with minimal maintenance and costs required, on my own domain, with changes tracked in Github. My blog is at this point at least 4 years older than all Medium accounts and will probably outlast Medium.<p>This may not be for your grandmother, but you're a software developer and the setup would take you one day of work. It actually takes more than that to write a good article.