Chris CoyierIs there any particular *way* of building websites that you're nostolgic for?
Thanks for all the replies! Kinda seems like “plain code” and “ftp” are very popular answers.
Eric A. Meyer@chriscoyier I keep telling people they don’t have to wallow in nostalgia, they can build sites that way right now and live the dream. That’s pretty much how I do meyerweb (if you sub SFTP for FTP), except for the WordPress part, and even for that I edit template files over an SFTP connection. Old ways are the best ways, eh, Major?
Large Heydon Collider@Meyerweb @chriscoyier I used Filezilla until about a week ago when I learned their CEO is taking a massive salary.
@heydon @chriscoyier I’ve been using Panic’s Transmit (https://www.panic.com/transmit/) for years now, basically no complaints. Especially since I can hook it up to BBEdit, which is how I edit over SFTP.
@Meyerweb @chriscoyier Interesting, I'm going to look into doing things more this way again.
Krijn Hoetmer@heydon @Meyerweb @chriscoyier macFUSE and mount your remote stuff as if it were a local disk, via sshfs. For all projects I work on alone, I code everything that way (cssday.nl, perfnow.nl, royalholidays.eu, fronteers.nl, etc). Cmd+S has been my deployment strategy for almost 20 years now (so no build steps or transpiling either).
@KrijnHoetmer @heydon @chriscoyier I’ve toyed with this sort of setup (Transmit enables a similar setup) but I feel more comfortable with my local files all being a dev setup, and the server on the other side of an SFTP application launch as the production environment. (Hopefully that makes sense.)
@Meyerweb Completely, I just don’t like maintaining (slightly different) server environments, so trying to keep that number as low as possible. It also feels kind of liberating to only have one point of truth to worry about.
wesruv@Meyerweb @heydon @chriscoyier
And they published Untitled Goose Game and had the most beautiful Mac icons back in the day 😂
Adam Meyer@Meyerweb @heydon @chriscoyier I have moved away from Dropbox, but still maintain an account since clients use it. I use Transmit to get at their shared files when necessary. Works great. And I use it for all SFTP needs.
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