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Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by jayfae »

zote wrote: post #3
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

Replied to the wrong message - but I did something similar here at https://www.jaynicolsmith.com/ (its still messy) - followed a tutorial somewhere and it processes my obsidian.md vault, make a note - push to git - tada - you can steal anything i have used for this from here https://github.com/Jayziv/summer-project

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by Eupraxias »

nunez wrote: post #7
Affric wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

And then there are those of us who positively REVILE the mobile interface. I will continue to use a non-laptop desktop computer until I have no choice.

For me, I turn my telephone on for 2FA challenges, and then turn it off again. I hate those things.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by jjav »

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…

> Most people have non-computery interests, and that's fine.

Even though I'm in tech in silicon valley, all the personal websites I maintain are related to non-tech hobbies.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by dfxm12 »

btbuildem wrote: post #41
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…

"People only care about consuming" -- it might seem that way to a lazy beholder. The entire digital landscape is engineered for consumption -- of ads, and the products they advertise. Yet individuals continue to CREATE content on which these parasites piggy-back. We are creatives by nature. The consumption is just one facet; had we built "the internet" out of tools and spaces more suitable for creativity, perhaps thi…

Interesting that you left off the qualifier "many", changing the context of OP's statement.

I'll say, talking about "many" in the pool of all Internet users is pretty much meaningless (you can count "many" among any sub-population from a starting population so large), but OP is clearly implying that there are a great deal more consumers than creators out there.

Stats support this, like 97% of tweets coming from only 25% of tweeters: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/2-comparing-...

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by Eupraxias »

superkuh wrote: post #13
nunez wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

>browsers can still talk HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 For now. It won't be too many years before the mega-corp browsers not only drop early HTTP support but they drop HTTP/1.1 too. They'll do this in the name of "security". And then all that Chrome based browsers will support will be their very own invented and open-washed QUIC in the form of HTTP/3 and hosting a personal website visitable by a random person will not be pos…

Why is this getting downvoted? Can someone who is downvoting, or anyone, provide a reason?

Is the comment patently incorrect?

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by NoboruWataya »

jjav wrote: post #63
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…

> Most people have non-computery interests, and that's fine. Even though I'm in tech in silicon valley, all the personal websites I maintain are related to non-tech hobbies.

In my experience techies often maintain websites for their non-tech hobbies. But non-techies are much more likely to publish about their hobbies via other media like Facebook, Reddit etc. Your tech background drives the choice of medium, if not the choice of content.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by Eupraxias »

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/…

Honest question: does anyone else open notepad and start typing when they want to make a new webpage?

I have been making website and pages since 1998, and have never done it another way.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by adql »

dimkorf wrote: post #43
nirimda wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Strong disagree. People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. When you "consume" content on Facebook or Twitter, you can produce content and reasonably expect to get an audience - because you know there's other people there. If you have your own personal website, you have no natural audience. If you're lucky, Google mig…

> People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. Are you potentially speaking for a vocal minority here that wants to be part of a conversation while ignoring the many than simply read (consume)?

Well, there is a reason most sites nowadays have comment section. The readers also read comments, even if they might only add to them rarely

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by DustinBrett »

Totally agree as someone who has been making personal sites since I was a kid in '98. My latest iteration has been nearly 2 years in the making now. I had a WordPress blog for many years but finally decided it was time as a software developer to have a site that was custom. The core idea of the site is as if you've RDP'd into my Windows 10 machine and can see all my files and apps. Everything runs client side which was also something important to me. If interested please check it out, I nickname it daedalOS and it's also open source.

https://dustinbrett.com/

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by [deleted] »

jjav wrote: post #63
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…

> Most people have non-computery interests, and that's fine. Even though I'm in tech in silicon valley, all the personal websites I maintain are related to non-tech hobbies.

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