OLDaily4d ago
EmDash Playground #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79084 A lot of smart thinking went into this application that touts itself as what WordPress would look like if it were built with today's tools. It's "a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare.
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Show threadD'Arcy Norman 🇨🇦4d ago
@oldaily it still seems like such a complex hosting model. I have a folder of markdown files that get converted to html files that get uploaded to a low-end server. That’s the end of the CMS involvement and the website just works forever-ish.
Show threadDownes 🍁
@dnorman @oldaily Well yeah, but that's hardly 'Wordpress functionality', it's a static website.
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Show threadD'Arcy Norman 🇨🇦4d ago
@Downes @oldaily it's just making different decisions about where the functionality belongs.
Show threadDownes 🍁3d ago
@dnorman @oldaily I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying static text and WordPress-style are two very different things.
Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦4d ago

@Downes @dnorman @oldaily A post like this has been drafted in my head. The look and structure of a web site is one thing, but it’s fashionable to look down on WordPress.

That ignores all the things one can do just be fiddling with its URLs https://show.cogdog.casa/pressedconf21/ not to mention its RSS feeds for everything, an open API, and with some fiddling, and the hooks into its flow.

D’Arcy has done much to extend, but he’s a guru.

I still adore what I can do with WP.

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