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Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by julianlam »

The HN zeitgeist (at least as of 2021) was to use a static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll. Why would we want to use Nym — speaking as someone who doesn't use either, that is.

When the itch to "small b blog" (love the term, by the way) came around, I built my own blogging frontend utilising GitHub Gists as the data store[1]. It's been working great so far, and uses basically no resources.

[1] https://devnull.land/github-gist-blog

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by zote »

julianlam wrote: post #2

The HN zeitgeist (at least as of 2021) was to use a static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll. Why would we want to use Nym — speaking as someone who doesn't use either, that is. When the itch to "small b blog" (love the term, by the way) came around, I built my own blogging frontend utilising GitHub Gists as the data store[1]. It's been working great so far, and uses basically no resources. [1] https://devnull.land/…

Wouldn't adding Frontmatter to your markdown be a possible alternative to multiple files per gist to store metadata

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by devonallie »

julianlam wrote: post #2

The HN zeitgeist (at least as of 2021) was to use a static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll. Why would we want to use Nym — speaking as someone who doesn't use either, that is. When the itch to "small b blog" (love the term, by the way) came around, I built my own blogging frontend utilising GitHub Gists as the data store[1]. It's been working great so far, and uses basically no resources. [1] https://devnull.land/…

I write all my posts in Obsidian and export them to Hugo and it’s fantastic!

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by nunez »

If this were true, SquareSpace would be trading way higher than they are now, Twitter wouldn't exist, and Facebook would look a lot like MySpace.

My take: people created websites back then because there was no other choice. People RUSHED into MySpace when it got hot partly because of this.

Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Just like many people don't become screenwriters or directors because they love TV or movies (though this is definitely a bigger pipeline than tech); they just want The Avengers or Real Housewives or whatever.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Most people have non-computery interests, and that's fine.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by Affric »

nunez wrote: post #5

If this were true, SquareSpace would be trading way higher than they are now, Twitter wouldn't exist, and Facebook would look a lot like MySpace. My take: people created websites back then because there was no other choice. People RUSHED into MySpace when it got hot partly because of this. Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Just like many people don't become screenwriters or dir…

Good comment. And the old web is still there but for almost 30 years it’s not been where the growth is.

99% of people don’t want computers, they want computers to do the work of life for them so they can get on with what really interest them.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by nunez »

Affric wrote: post #6
nunez wrote: post #5

If this were true, SquareSpace would be trading way higher than they are now, Twitter wouldn't exist, and Facebook would look a lot like MySpace. My take: people created websites back then because there was no other choice. People RUSHED into MySpace when it got hot partly because of this. Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Just like many people don't become screenwriters or dir…

Good comment. And the old web is still there but for almost 30 years it’s not been where the growth is. 99% of people don’t want computers, they want computers to do the work of life for them so they can get on with what really interest them.

thanks! agreed.

browsers can still talk HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 (though they largely don't want to, for good reasons) and HTML still works! i loved (LOVED) the old Internet, but time has moved on.

that said, Hugo is amazing and I absolutely love it!

sidebar now that I'm on this soapbox. i think this is 100% the reason why iOS and macOS will never converge.

The desktop OS is a dying product. If everyone could do their work on their phones and tablets, they would. And that is happening now that iDevices are becoming significantly more capable and microsoft seems to be throwing less weight at moving Windows licenses.

alas, if this is true, it makes so much more sense to throw significant resources at making phones and tablets the best they can be instead of shoehorning a dying desktop experience into a mobile factor (something that's been tried way too many times before)

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