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Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by Retr0id »

dmje wrote: post #34
brigadier132 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, please tell me the easy way to include interactive js demos in wordpress like the blog post author has. It's obvious that the blogpost author wants a level of customization that wordpress can't offer. Also, trying new technologies was literally a goal of the project.

I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode, if there isn't an existing plugin that does it already? WordPress is insanely customisable - it's "just php". And sure, maybe his new skill learning could be coding on WordPress :-)

I'm not sure I'd want to prioritize PHP development as a new skill in 2023^H4.

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by [deleted] »

4pkjai wrote: post #17

The author and I look at this very differently. He aimed to have his blog up in five days. Last time I created a blog I aimed to have it up that day. IMO the text is more important than the HTML and CSS

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Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by cstrahan »

ploppyploppy wrote: post #6

Blog post, not blog?

It’s a blog post about rewriting/redesigning the foundation of his blog.

It would be titled “A New Blog Post for 2024” if all he did was write a new blog post. But if you read the blog post, you’ll see that he overhauled the entirety of his blog.

Maybe an analogy would help. If you’re a game developer and you replace the game engine of your game, you might update your in-game “about/credits” page to mention “in release x.y.z we switched from Unity to Unreal Engine” — what you wouldn’t do is say “in release x.y.z we updated this in-game ‘about’ page to, well… mention that we changed the about ‘about’ page to now state that we changed the ‘about’ page”.

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by rambambram »

fouronnes3 wrote: post #13
Kharacternyk wrote: post #11

The background noise is a subtle detail I would have never noticed on my own, but it does subconsciously make the blog appeal to me. Content in front of something that looks like real paper appears more credible than the same content on a flat background.

I agree! Any tips on how to implement it?

What about a background (pattern) that has the noise already in it? I use https://bg.siteorigin.com/ often to create subtle backgrounds like the one on https://www.winkeljustitia.nl/

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by dmje »

Retr0id wrote: post #30
dmje wrote: post #24

Again, because I'm boring like that: it's pretty hilarious to me that anyone would choose to make a new blog and not just use WordPress, especially when their stated aim contains this: "...that makes it as easy as possible to create posts". There are some moments when you shouldn't use WordPress. A blog is not one of those moments. Avoiding the obvious tool for the job is classic developer trendytool syndrome.

Sometimes the medium is the message. A web developer's blog can be a platform to show off their skills, and the blog itself is one way to do that.

Yeh, I get that - but then at the same time we have a web developers blog here with no RSS / feeds as far as I can see, no comments, no API, no OG tags - all the things one would expect from a blog. These seem to me a strange set of things to sacrifice in this context.

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by ljm »

4pkjai wrote: post #17

The author and I look at this very differently. He aimed to have his blog up in five days. Last time I created a blog I aimed to have it up that day. IMO the text is more important than the HTML and CSS

I think people with an eye for design are going to be much more interested in showcasing that through their blog. In that sense it's pretty neat (and I'm curious about the Tailwind stuff used because I could see myself using that at work in future). Plus, the author's other stated goal was to try out some new hotness.

Of course, I'm not a designer myself so I would see all of this as overkill if I tried to do it. It's enough for me to write in org-mode and export my blog as HTML with a nice template. A static file server can handle a small bunch of HTML files at scale without breaking a sweat, so no need for the JS take on SSR or AWS Lambda functions or what have you.

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by dmje »

Retr0id wrote: post #41
dmje wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode, if there isn't an existing plugin that does it already? WordPress is insanely customisable - it's "just php". And sure, maybe his new skill learning could be coding on WordPress :-)

I'm not sure I'd want to prioritize PHP development as a new skill in 2023^H4.

Again, pretty hilarious given how full featured and fast PHP is nowadays, but ok... I'm also gonna make a little private bet that PHP will outlast a fair amount of the currently trendy tooling...

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by jakubmazanec »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #32
jakubmazanec wrote: post #20

Maybe this will show all the React/Next.js/Server components haters that you can use them to very quickly build pages that are very performant (though used stack isn't that important anyway, the result depends more on the user's effort and attention to details).

And yet many of the HN comments complain about poor performance /shrug

Well, if you use CSS blur and load even the most simple HTML page on old Android phone or full-screen on 4K screen, lag happens, but that's orthogonal to what I meant.

Re: A new blog for 2024

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Post by dmje »

brigadier132 wrote: post #39
dmje wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode, if there isn't an existing plugin that does it already? WordPress is insanely customisable - it's "just php". And sure, maybe his new skill learning could be coding on WordPress :-)

> I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode Ok, so learn php when they could just use js which they likely already know and likely get paid to know. Wordpress and php are negative value skills, you do not want to advertise that you know those things as a developer because someone might try to hire you for them.

Failing to understand what "Wordpress and php are negative value skills" even means. I'm pretty happy with the work I get paid for ;-)
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