benbrown (old account)The best websites in the world, the ones that got us all hooked on the internet in the first place, people hand built them in HTML.
Even sites with content management tools, you wrote HTML into forms.
The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus@benbrown And the best part was you could make it as weird and as messy as you wanted!
My siblings and I had a really old and really shitty Pokémon fan site back in the late 90s/early 2000s and we were just learning as we went along, and the design was awful as all getup, but it was personalized and felt organic!
Chris Dillon 🌹@benbrown Remix has this feel again for me. I remember trying to figure out Homesite and IIS and how the hell all of this was going to work. It led to PHP 3 and MySQL, eventually Rails where this and more made sense for me. Now, so many good choices. But in the beginning, I had to build and export to a wwwroot folder or something. I was confused but I didn't know I was.
John Gordon
Tim@benbrown Yea, Hugo has been around for awhile, but I'm thinking about moving to that. It's still a Jamstack, but just poops out static HTML...not JS.
@neovaldis Check out enhance.dev!
Orc@benbrown ... and lost their minds doing so.
(I've tried to do railroad timetables in just html. They're pretty much the definition of write-only pages!)
Spoontaneous Consumption
Lee (Pilchard) Stacey@benbrown Those days were fun.
Dan McDonaldCREATED WITH:
- vi
- emacs
- cat & ^D
Off The Books