Yea here is the talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n2xnOiWI8)
I have found that static generators, specifically Hugo, have made just plain HTML fun again. They give you just enough power to not repeat yourself endlessly (e.g. maintaining each page and copy-pasta all changes between them) without turning into the system's we're all trying to step back from.
Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website
by markatkinson on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:31AM
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Yes, thank you! What a great talk.
Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website
by vanderZwan on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:12PM
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> It took me time to work out where to start...
Neocities? It's where I occasionally dump my static-can't-be-bothered sketches.
Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website
by aldoushuxley001 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:56PM
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I was expecting an ancient 90s era neocities site, but it's actually very beautifullly designed. Well done Neocities.
Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website
by user111233 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:55PM
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There is a lot of user submitted 90s style content though.
It took me time to work out where to start... Once you think it through you realise it is pretty easy and obvious. But (and this gives away my age a bit), I have not built a static webpage since school (over 10 years ago), and have become so accustomed to all the crazy shit that goes into web development today like Webpack, NPM, React, Angular etc etc that I had forgotten how to actually just serve a piece of HTML.
My dependence on all these frameworks and CLIs sent me on a quest to find out more about pure javascript, and I came across an incredible talk by a developer who created a pure javascript web app for music notation. I really wanted to link it here but cannot find it.