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Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by lynndotpy »

mcdonje wrote: post #18

The pic of the ugly site looks like it's full of blog posts, but this post is on a different site for some reason. I would've rather been sent to the ugly site if it doesn't have marketing cookies and a membership popup.

Yeah, I thought this was one of those critiques of the enshittified web.

I think this website is bad, but I also think it is very funny to have:

(1) a banner about print editions (2) a cookie consent u (3) a header 'Good Internet' peeking through the now-familiar modern hallmarks of the bad internet, and (4) the first four words of the headline, which is being eclipsed by the cookie popup (5) Once you remove the cookie banner, there is now also a persistent cookie settings button, and a persistent "+ Become a Member" button.

taylor.town is a very good internet website by comparison

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by parpfish »

ebiester wrote: post #37
donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

I think the difference is that I spent so much time tweaking the website that I wasn't writing. Moving back to Jekyll was entirely a move because I wanted to spend more of that time writing. At the same time, I know that it limits me in other ways (for example, I'd love to have a way to post to my blog in one section and federate to bluesky and mastodon, and I know it's possible, but I would have to build it. So I'll…

An actual LLM use case!

A model that generates AI slop blog posts so you don’t need to write content and can just focus on the fun parts of making the website

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by yoz-y »

donatj wrote: post #14
yoz-y wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My argument to moving to a SSR is that I just spent all the time tweaking the backend. Now I can spend more time writing and tweaking just the theme.

But did you enjoy tweaking the backend?

I did yes. But I realized also that I could enjoy tinkering with something more generally useful and permanent instead.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by 90s_dev »

donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website.

Sure, that's a fine purpose.

But some websites just want to get a specific job done and be done with it.

Like https://tellconanobrienyourfavoritepizzatoppings.com/

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by edu »

kapitanjakc wrote: post #4

I don't have a personal site yet. But when I do, I plan to make it with HTML+CSS+JS/JQ only Maybe apache or nginx as webservers host it on shared stuff or AWS free tier I just need to figure out how to center a div, and then I'll be in the business.

What I'm doing for my site is similar, I just sprinkle 11ty on top for the static generation, and then publish on netlify pages.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by sph »

It was good and minimal before, now it's all form and no function (no dates, no ordering of posts).

Honestly, unremarkable post for an unremarkable idea. Smells like a PR push to publicize the author's website more than anything. Sure it's your website, you can do anything you want, but that is hardly a ground-breaking concept, is it?

(The posted website has been created 2 days ago, and already has 5 posts created all on the same day, asking for paid membership, hoping to trend on HN. s/good/dead/internetmagazine.com)

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by natnatenathan »

donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

I feel this exactly. However, I find more fun to create and modify the site vs actually writing articles, so my deployments are probably 5x my actual blog posts. I got into computers because I love to code. I will still be here, writing dumb things for my own fun long after AI is the primary creator of professional coders.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by miloignis »

oxalorg wrote: post #38
donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

Exactly this. My entire website is handcrafted, and not once but over the last decade almost ~10 times. It's fun and I almost end up revamping something every year. Everything handcrafted: - the matrix js code on home page. https://oxal.org click on the matrix for a surprise! - it's built using my own Static Site Generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox - my website uses a css theme, again handcrafted: https://git…

I quite like the matrix w/ the surprise!
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