I went ahead and registered greybeardit.org I will create a github pages open source project where people can submit articles, it will be 100% open source.
I actually agree with you on static-typing and am a huge fan of binary protocols but using "no standards" around anything is a weak argument that everybody needs to just stop. If you don't like the fact that there are no standards with a particular tech, go out there and MAKE SOME. Show people how to do it right, document it and propose it. Get some buy in. Don't just sit around going "oh woe is me, no standards"
I'll second that. Despite the warnings of "it's a lot of work to maintain!", I've only had one minor glitch which was my own fault - I didn't read the update news before doing a full update. When that happened, the steps to recover were all clearly laid out in the very excellent arch wiki.
My experience with ubuntu was that when something went wrong, there was no easy way to deduce exactly what had happened, or what to do to fix it. The forums were full of similar symptoms with different causes.
I've also become much more knowledgeable about the way linux, and OSes in general, work thanks to the closer relationship arch makes you foster with your machine.
