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I used to publish some math-heavy posts on medium (complete with equation images!) before moving it all over to gitlab pages with the hugo static site generator, and equations rendered with katex. If the author is reading this, the translation process didn't take very long (maybe a day) and I'm very happy with the results; compare:

https://medium.com/@ahelwer/walking-the-faster-than-light-ti...

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-12-07-chsh/

I'm generally allergic to tweaking things & general command-line bullshit but the whole process was surprisingly smooth. Readers don't have to deal with popup & tracker bullshit (except for youtube, who have endeavored to make it impossible to embed videos with issuing tracking cookies), and it feels nice to have much more control over what makes it into the final product.




Thanks Andrew. Yes Medium is not that good for math, but it gives visibility to a broader audience w.r.t. a personal page. The plan was to add the PDF of the article on GitHub but I forgot. Nevertheless, beside the painful process of cutting and converting equations, the final result is not too bad in my opinion.




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