If you have a blog, you've probably thought about adding a comment section. Aside from implementing it yourself or using a third-party service like Disqus, there is a better alternative.
With all the EPUB stuff I've been working on lately I wanted to see what jailbreaking my Kindle would offer, particularly a Kindle as old as mine.
I have a 4th gen Kindle that I want to read web articles on. I tried some web-to-epub converters but they're pretty bad or aren't free, so I want to learn how to do it myself!
This is going to be a bit of a technical rant about something most programmers won't have the misfortune of dealing with: type erasure. A two-decade old solution to generics for Java that should have been shelved long ago. Java devs claim it is "necessary"—it's bullshit.
When I opened up the text editor to start making my website, I had two choices: stick with what I'm familiar with and use plain HTML and CSS, or learn something new. I chose the path less travelled by.
