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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.
I've never understood the whole centering a div meme. width: 60%; // define your width as desired margin: 0 auto; Now go start your blog!
It's been working for the second century.
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…
My colophon if anyone is interested
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…
Might be difficult to believe, but I strongly believe there are things that no one else on this planet would do except one of us.
It's ugly because an "accept cookies" pop-up obscures half of the page.
If you are a web dev reading this and you've implemented a cookie popup on a website, please do the world a favor and find a different industry to work in.
[1] https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...
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Now center div with unknown height vertically :-) And no cheating by using flexbox!
how do you center something on an axis with no limits placed to form a segments. That’s mathematically impossible unless you placed the limits first.
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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
It's ugly because an "accept cookies" pop-up obscures half of the page.
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.
GitHub has free hosting.