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< Webdev seemed so easy, but now it seems so hard...

~bartender, a White Lady for me, please -- and some sweet cream for Smudge.

I've been making websites since college in 1996, and I do webdev at my day job, but I refuse to do any sort of webdev that involves server-side code, databases, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, React/Vue/Angular, etc. unless I'm damned well getting paid.

Not when I can build my own static website (with a blog and RSS feeds) with pandoc, sed, awk, HTML-XML-utils, rsync, a bunch of shell scripts, and a makefile. That's one self-inflicted First World Problem I can do without. And it doesn't cost me that much to run. I deposit twenty bucks with NearlyFreeSpeech.net every 2-5 months and I'm fine.

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~d838 wrote:

There's some good replies on this thread..!

I'm mostly trying to find the right balance between "doesn't take ages to make" and "efficient with as few problems as possible". A lot of these frameworks and libraries and stuff do look appetising, but always ends up as a new way to smash together stuff I don't understand.

Though I'm a bit too superstitious to use PHP, I reckon Django w/ nginx & MySQL (no CSS or JS preprocessor) should work fine,

It appears the fire alarm has gone off near me so I'll write the rest of this later...

(later edit: Whoops, forgot what I was going to write.)

~tetris wrote:

I genuinely love pure Javascript. It's such a freeing language to code in, I just detest all these horrible frameworks that people impose on it to turn it into something it was never meant to be.

A static website, a shell script to obfuscate some of my JS, and all my code and/or extra libraries are hosted by me instead of linked to via some external site.

~jr wrote (thread):

yeah for real... i'm in school for software engineering and i hate every second of it because i've realized they're just trying to teach me to fix problems that shouldn't exist in the first place... i've only been doing web dev for 6 years and i kind of gave up on it after taking a step back and realizing what was happening. now i run an openbsd server and use c + httpd, relayd, and more. it's way more fun for a traditionally "lesser" outcome.