Post #2286748
2026-05-01 13:31 UTC
Something I find myself doing a lot right now is writing little local scripts to generate web pages from data using e.g. templating libraries rather than full blown generated static site frameworks or whatever. Feel like I'm searching for some lost stage we skipped past where we had handy abstractions to automate making websites without obfuscating the bejesus out of the whole thing.
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@sue@glasgow.social 2026-05-01 13:33
There is some compulsion in software where automation breeds more automation and we accidentally leap over the phase where it was actually optimal for both usefulness and understanding.
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@PasZau@mastodon.online 2026-05-01 14:54
@sue@glasgow.social I sometimes even write my own html/css/js code for some static pages (but that's maybe because I just like to write code like others like to write prose).