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Keep using YouTube, but not exclusively

Posted: 2024-01-12

YouTube is great. It allows you to upload giant video files to its servers, and it allows anyone in the world to find and view these videos with little delay. This requires inconceivable amounts of resources to pull off in every sense: physical, mental, and financial. Google has many large data centers worldwide that all cost hundreds of millions of dollars each. It needs to design, develop, deploy, and maintain extremely complex software not just to manage all of the servers in each datacenter, but to communicate with other datacenters as well, in such a way that compromises neither speed nor data integrity, in spite of race conditions and other nasty networking realities. And did I mention that all of this is free for us to use? It's a miracle, really. Imagine what the world would be like if this concept didn't work out. The only thing worse than that would be if it only worked once.

My Second Post

Posted: 2022-12-08

So, it's my second post here. And nearly a year has passed since the first. Yeah, I forgot about this site. Or rather, I didn't forget, but I've only thought of it occasionally, without the motivation to actually work on it. Uh... I've been good? I'm not a blogger and you're not a reader. Of mine, anyway, since this is an empty test blog on an empty test site. And this is a test post, empty of meaningful content. Congratulations to me for reaching 1,000 views on this site, by the way, even though I reached 500 in the first few days. What a dropoff. What a... non-disappointment, since I wasn't expecting anything in the first place.

My First Post

Posted: 2021-12-20

So, it's my first post here. I'm not gonna write 600 words about my ambitious goals for this site, because I don't really have any. I know nobody's going to follow it, and I know that I won't update this blog very often. But the thing is, I don't really care about any of that.