WizardApr 15, 2020

Hugo-style static blog generators vs wordpress style blogging software is an unimportant implementation detail.

Emacs and files vs text boxes and relational database; in either case you're editing abstract "content" which is turned into HTML by an opaque and possibly Byzantine process which is difficult for most users to understand and control.

#ChangeMyMind

#SpicyHotTakes #Blogging #staticSiteGenerators

Show threadRenato RamondaApr 15, 2020
@wizard the big difference is that static content is faster, doesn't rely on a backend that can (will) break, and is much, much harder to hack (if not impossible, it depends on how much dumb javascript you include... ideally none)
Show threadRenato RamondaApr 15, 2020

@wizard ...can't SQL Inject something that doesn't have SQL, and can't run shellcode on a broken interpreter or cgi if you don't have an interpreter or cgi.

Surface area reduction. :)

(that said, I have a wordpress blog and a static 1-page hugo website)

Show threadWizardApr 15, 2020
@renatoram Implementation details!
Show threadRenato RamondaApr 15, 2020
@wizard not to a sysadmin and/or infosec guy, no 😊
Show threadWizard
@renatoram they're implementation details that happen to matter to a sysadmin and/or infosec guy, is all. :)
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Show threadWizardApr 15, 2020
@renatoram So I guess "unimportant" in my initial post is relative. Not unimportant to everyone.
Show threadRenato RamondaApr 15, 2020

@wizard if you abstract enough, "data goes in" -> "implementation details" -> "data comes out" describes pretty much everything ever built.

But that level of abstraction makes the argument irrelevant.

Yes, and?

Show threadWizardApr 15, 2020
@renatoram It doesn't describe *everything* ever built, no. If I put a README.txt file on a web server, there is no processing between the data going in and the data coming out. The data going in is a text file. The data coming out is a text file.
Show threadWizardApr 15, 2020
@renatoram You could say "well, that doesn't count as 'anything ever built' because it's nothing." And I'm like, yeah. That's it exactly. :)