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Julia Evans Dec 19, 2024

I don't know if it's possible to get a good answer to this but: if you learned how to make websites with, like, users who can login and do things where the website stores stuff in a database, without doing it as a job, how did you do it?

I feel like in principle I know all of the basic pieces (HTTP, HTML, CSS, SQL, CORS, various programming languages, etc), but also somehow it still feels extremely hard to me

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Thomas Koeppen Dec 20, 2024

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Anders Borch

@b0rk I am ancient - think mummies and dinosaurs - so I learned by downloading programming manuals and printing them, my local library also had books on programming (which still might be true today).

For HTML, I looked at the source code of websites.

There was a lot of trial and error.

I had no clue what I was doing, I stored data in a flat file that was world readable and writable.

I had to go to school to discover that databases existed.