The modern web sucks. My band's website doesn't.

Ive been having a good time with https://neocities.org/ and seeing what other people have been making.

I first put up a web page back in '98 (which I found out was archived) but earlier this year I decided to return to the web. Went around wondering how to do that. Didn't want to use those bloaty site generators. Read around the IndieWeb stuff and whatnot and decided to do it by hand. Though I did make use of Seamonkey's Composer. Kept reading about static site generator's but not sure what to use. Might redo things with 11ty and move my page from GitHub to Codeberg maybe. Nice video, thanks.

So why do you hate JQuery?

@vkc I smiled when I saw the part of the video where you used AOLpress. Some friends and I just made a website with Claris Home Page a few weeks ago.

Very nice video. And yes, 256 color is enough. :D

Huge fan of Eleventy.

@vkc Great video! I am thinking about static site generators back and forth all the time, but I donˋt know how I would do microblogging (or any other content) when I am not at my laptop and only on my tablet or smartphone. Does anyone have an idea?

Another thing I need to wrap my head around are gig dates. I don‘t yet know how to properly manage and archive these when they happened. 🤔

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"so much of the modern web is solving problems by introducing new problems"
- very accurate assessment by @vkc

@vkc Love this so much! My band’s site is just HTML and CSS: betterasbrass.band

@vkc I wanted to build a simple blog or a home on the internet but every solution was too complicated... thanks for the heads up !

@vkc this is cool! Even I've been through a bunch of website hosting mechanisms and settled upon static site generators as the best (although I use Haunt, no 11ty) 👻

They're *almost* as lean as hand-coded HTML, but with just the right amount of dynamic-ness so I don't feel I'm repeating the same code endlessly ✨

@vkc That was a lovely watch! 11ty is great!

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Very cool! Five years ago I migrated my blogs from Blogspot, and I created a *framework* on my own, which is very similar to 11ty – if I had known about it at the time, I’d have used it.

@vkc why am I learning about this a month after I launched my static website I wrote by hand 😭

11ty would have saved me a lot of time

@vkc Great video! I looked at your page and it looks awesome! I recently got inspired to make a personal site (still in progress, not shared it yet) and all of that HTML knowledge I had from the late 90's starting rushing back. My goal is to write it all myself, maybe annoying my wife to do some graphic design. I did learn to do a little java script and css in the past few days, but I am keeping it all super simple.

@vkc please roll your own static site generator in Cobol 😭 I'd watch a whole live coding series of that 😂

You brought me some nostalgia.

ahh static sites ❤️ this is the way. CMS'es still have a place for the non tech savvy, but for the people able to make a fediverse account tools like 11ty, hugo, etc makes wp look like a solution looking for a problem 😁

@vkc I setup a very simple bash script but after watching this video I feel like switching to Eleventy.

The thought of updating & tweaking my script in the future makes me shudder.

Thanks for all the great and very helpful videos!

@vkc Nice video! I was wondering if you heard about simonrepp.com/faircamp/ yet?

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@vkc You made a good case for Eleventy. That auto-refresh thing is very handy in working on a site.
Props for using Codeberg as well.
It's an inspiring video. If you can make 90s web design work today (in modern templates), then so can I.

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Thanks for the video!