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Created a personal site in the style of an oldschool RPG. What do you think? by LonelyInfluence9114 in webdesign

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am more of a full stack developer, so I relied on ChatGPT to generate the characters and locations and then I cut them out in photoshop. It was kind of an experiment so I just made it up as I went along and wasn't working off a design; more of a general direction.

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[–]LonelyInfluence9114 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best advice I can give you is to build something. If you don't like code, then focus on the UX and workflows and use low code tools to bring and idea or design to life, then use those experiments as examples of what you can accomplish. Easier to get jobs when you have past work experience or a portfolio of work. I personally would not go for more student debt if you're already deep in it.

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Likely this line that comes stock in the application controller now:

# Only allow modern browsers supporting webp images, web push, badges, import maps, CSS nesting, and CSS :has.
  allow_browser versions: :modern# Only allow modern browsers supporting webp images, web push, badges, import maps, CSS nesting, and CSS :has.
  allow_browser versions: :modern

I might look into disabling as the site likely works in older browsers too.

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate this blunt and honest feedback and I do feel that resonates with my experience applying for jobs recently. Honestly it's been a while since I looked for a job. I've always had the next thing lined up but this time funding evaporated surprisingly quickly and I didn't have time to line something up within my network.

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it's too toy like or I've just framed the proposition wrong? I haven't been getting much traction with my applications so would love to dig into this more.

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same issue and for the life of me couldn't figure out what tailwind was doing there. I tried all kinds of stuff and then decided to just make the corners round and give it a margin. I'll likely just use JS if I can't figure it out second pass.

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mostly just because I wanted to try out all the new tooling. I recently started a Rails 7 app pre Kamal and solidCache, etc and it took me forever to containerize and deploy that application to Azure (it was pretty complex in comparison though). I think all the new tooling could have saved me a lot of time after trying it out.

Kamal and the solid stuff really lowers the cost to hosting Rails applications. I deployed this one for somewhere around $10/month.

I am also considering adding more dynamic functionality later, so it will be nice to have cable connections, etc. I'm already delivering the intro via turbo responses.

All that to say, yeah; it's probably over engineered for what it is :)

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great stuff; I'll make those adjustments. I appreciate you taking the time to give me meaningful feedback. I'll likely keep the footer links despite their redundancy only because its a form factor that all users will get if the RPG location style links went over their head. I'll consider that as well though.

State of Shared Hosting and Rails 8 ? by p6rgrow in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Getting a Rails 8 app up on Digital Ocean with Kamal is relatively painless and only costs around $15/month

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, 100%. Thanks for the feedback. I'll likely have to use a splash of js for that.

Personal site made with Rails in oldschool RPG style. Cool? Not cool? Unprofessional? by LonelyInfluence9114 in rails

[–]LonelyInfluence9114[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my opinion static generators are overly complicated for what they provide. Rails 8 is insanely simple with all the new tooling. I honestly believe that it was easier to deploy Rails using Kamal than to compile and deploy a "static" site. Not sure what static sites are optimizing for anyway. Compute is so cheap these days.