@michaelharley Programming and web development are challenging and require a lot of time and effort to learn, but so does good writing.

I think there is a learned helplessness and self-limiting beliefs about technical aptitude (eg. people who self-identify as "not being a math person").

And I think this is by design. If a large majority of people believed they had the technical capacity to be autonomous from corporate tech it would cost entire industries.

Setting up a SSG blog can be as simple as forking an already-existing theme, pressing a few buttons on Netlify, and writing out Markdown plain text posts.

Even more importantly, I'd much rather see "poorly" designed websites by humans than nicely designed ones where the creator has no idea what's going on under the hood because they're forfeited that to generative AI.

Sorry I didn't realize I had so much to say on this lol.