My word, my whole blog is antipatterns (probably because I write it for
me :D). Like, look at these doozies (all have lengthy preambles). There are more, but these cover all the antipatterns mtlynch mentioned. I am not at all sad, rather I am chuckling because when one doesn't care who reads the post, one can get away with such ghastly antimatter :D
And, allow me to add antipattern no. N, in full display in the posts below: A 1:1 ratio of main body to footnotes, because we want some place to put all the spicy asides and hot takes.
What to do, my brain struggles with brevity :)
Exhibit A:
Over
ten thousand ~~words~~ tokens on bitemporal data modeling (in SQLite and Clojure), which has a preamble
and a postamble:
https://www.evalapply.org/posts/poor-mans-time-oriented-data... (Plus, this one breaks on mobile portrait view because I couldn't figure out the CSS-fu needed to stop
one pesky table from overflowing, and I am not going to fix it because the post reads
fine in landscape mode).
Exhibit B:
More thousands of words, urg no, tokens... on Terraforming one's infra: It opens with a Harvey Specter meme.
https://www.evalapply.org/posts/systems-approach-to-infrastr... Exhibit C:
Another
giant post on web stacks from first principles, and this one has a whole parable as well as a preamble:
https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch... Exhibit D:
A six part series, because this one got too long (re-making your dotemacs from scratch tends to go that way). Um, and each post gets progressively longer and preambly-er:
https://www.evalapply.org/tags/emacs/index.html#main(edit: reorder + fix formatting for clarity)
And, allow me to add antipattern no. N, in full display in the posts below: A 1:1 ratio of main body to footnotes, because we want some place to put all the spicy asides and hot takes.
What to do, my brain struggles with brevity :)
Over ten thousand ~~words~~ tokens on bitemporal data modeling (in SQLite and Clojure), which has a preamble and a postamble: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/poor-mans-time-oriented-data... (Plus, this one breaks on mobile portrait view because I couldn't figure out the CSS-fu needed to stop one pesky table from overflowing, and I am not going to fix it because the post reads fine in landscape mode). More thousands of words, urg no, tokens... on Terraforming one's infra: It opens with a Harvey Specter meme. https://www.evalapply.org/posts/systems-approach-to-infrastr... Another giant post on web stacks from first principles, and this one has a whole parable as well as a preamble: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch... A six part series, because this one got too long (re-making your dotemacs from scratch tends to go that way). Um, and each post gets progressively longer and preambly-er: https://www.evalapply.org/tags/emacs/index.html#main(edit: reorder + fix formatting for clarity)