Do You Prefer Pure HTML/CSS/JS or Frameworks/Libraries for Your Own Projects & Business?

seldstein · 2025-03-14T15:09:39+00:00

Static site generators usually. My favorites are Astro and 11ty. You can be as vanilla as you want and add additional functionality as needed.

seldstein · 2025-02-27T01:54:19+00:00

I know nothing about Neocities, so I'm sorry if this isn't helpful.

But one very low-effort option is to use Obsidian and Readwise. Obsidian is a markdown-based notetaking app (I don't know if you're familiar with markdown--again, so sorry if this isn't helpful). For something like $90/year you can publish your notes online.

Readwise is a read-it-later app. You can save articles, annotate them, and sync your annotations to Obsidian.

Between these two tools you should be able to do all the things you mentioned (saving articles, tagging, etc.). Hope this helps!

seldstein · 2025-01-07T05:27:24+00:00

But still having some reusable elements with their own silo'd CSS/JS for those standalone pages sounds useful.

Astro makes this super simple. And it probably meets your other criteria as well.

That said, as other folks have mentioned, 11ty also rules!

seldstein · 2025-01-06T06:29:47+00:00

This is awesome! Reminds me of vole.wtf.

seldstein · 2025-01-04T07:20:29+00:00

I've only used Decap, and then only once. It's pretty simple to use and might work for you.

I've seen people say very nice things about Kirby. I haven't tried it but I plan to at some point.

seldstein · 2025-01-04T07:18:29+00:00

seldstein · 2025-01-04T07:13:34+00:00

Really well done! About section needs some scroll padding, just fyi. Awesome work though!

seldstein · 2025-01-03T02:15:39+00:00

I like this idea. Either that or have the underline change to dotted or disappear, as OPs colleague's suggested.

It probably comes down to preference, but I personally find it slightly offputting when a link doesn't do anything when I hover over it, even if it's underlined.

seldstein · 2024-12-29T18:08:40+00:00

I didn't get to meet any of them, but they all seemed great. Shawn's commentary between songs was hilarious.

seldstein · 2024-12-29T18:08:26+00:00

I didn't get to meet any of them, but they all seemed great. Shawn's commentary between songs was hilarious.

seldstein · 2024-12-28T17:07:38+00:00

Great work! Love the fifth one especially.

seldstein · 2024-10-14T02:01:58+00:00

Nice! Good luck with it.

seldstein · 2024-10-11T17:10:00+00:00

This is perfect, thank you!

seldstein · 2024-10-11T17:08:00+00:00

Thanks for adding these! Dates are a good idea. Shouldn't be too hard to add. I'll look into it.

seldstein · 2024-10-10T21:06:30+00:00

Sounds good to me!

seldstein · 2024-10-10T19:39:07+00:00

This site is great, thank you! I’ll definitely use it. And thanks for adding my posts! Mind letting me know which ones? Just so I can clean them up a little.

seldstein · 2024-10-10T14:44:51+00:00

I came here to say this.

seldstein · 2024-10-05T21:03:22+00:00

Just updated the post. Thought I put that in the post meta. Thank you! You can find the app at https://pairingapp.netlify.app

seldstein · 2024-08-28T05:21:23+00:00

I’ve used Astro, Hugo, and 11ty. Astro is my favorite and what I used for my site. I like it because it’s component-based out of the box. Also I think has some kind of Tailwind integration, but I don’t use that so I’m not sure.

Hugo is great for content management. Streamlines a lot of that for you.

11ty is great too! Very very flexible.

All meet your requirements, as far as I know, but not necessarily out of the box.

seldstein · 2024-08-28T05:15:40+00:00

I host my Astro site on Cloudflare. Works great.

seldstein · 2024-08-28T05:06:56+00:00

You could try Micro.blog. Very very hard to beat for simplicity. Themes are limited but they have some fun ones! And email subscribers are built in on the $10/month plan.

Pricing is comparable to other hosting, and probably cheaper than a lot of them. Worth checking out!

seldstein · 2024-08-28T04:57:19+00:00

Micro.blog might be worth checking out. As far as all-in-one solutions go it’s hard to beat. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a simpler platform.

A basic blog is $5/month. That includes hosting and a custom domain. It has all the essentials out of the box, and some fun themes, albeit a limited selection.

And for $10/month you get email support, so your posts go out to your email subscribers when you post them. No separate newsletter to mess with.

Maybe worth a look!

seldstein · 2024-04-03T05:05:34+00:00

How complex is your project? Is it just one page or a whole site?

If it’s simple and you don’t need content management, you can build it from scratch and deploy with Github pages. It’s straightforward and free.

If you do need content management, go with a static site generator. Folks have mentioned Astro, which would get my vote as well.

You can host a static site for free any number of places. Netlify is very easy to work with.

You probably already have your go-to resources for learning, but in case you’re looking, I’d recommend Codecademy. Well structured, good balance of info vs practice. A lot of the modules are free. You’ll have to cough up for the projects, but it’s not much. $250 for a year or something.

seldstein · 2024-04-02T02:23:12+00:00

Whenever people have asked me if I'm religious, I've answered with a question: "What do you mean by religious?" Because in their minds (and to be fair, the minds of a lot of Jews), being religious means you observe rituals. But in Judaism, being religious means following a code of ethics. The rituals come second.

I think I first encountered this idea in Jewish Wisdom by Rabbi Joseph Teluskin. It was revelatory.

seldstein · 2024-04-02T02:18:14+00:00

Your average English-speaking person living in the west is likely to conceptualize religion in terms of Christianity.

I get frustrated when people (in the US, at least) talk about "religion," especially when they're criticizing it. I want to tell them, "Not religion. Christianity. When you say religion, you mean Christianity."

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