Well, my personal website is actually a ‘90s HTML (Dreamweaver, even) site (I’ve not been in a hurry to update, but I have been bricking up parts, as they crumble). There’s really only a couple of pages that are still relevant (my parents’ obits).
The other sites are just simple responsive WordPress sites, and aren’t designed to be eye-candy. They are actually quite modern, and work pretty well on phones. It’s just they aren’t ghastly, JavaScript-loaded, everscroll single-page sites, and aren’t trendy, at all. I’m not really trying to impress anyone. I just want to have a decent place to hang my stuff. I design my own sites, and Web design isn’t my forte.
I want to update them, but haven’t found the time. They work fine. I stopped putting my writing on Medium, because … Medium.
I like some of the static site generators, and maybe I’ll go with them, eventually.
I don’t try building high-Quality products, I succeed. I’ve been doing that for quite some time. I’m not particularly worried whether or not anyone uses them. I tend to build stuff that I (or my community) want. It’s a “market” that is quite underserved, as there aren’t vast profits or scale to be reaped. I’m happy to talk about it, but this isn’t really the venue for that.
I’ve found that there’s a great deal of satisfaction to be had, Serving a need, for folks that no one else cares about. The work interests me, more than fame and fortune. I spent my life, making stuff for corporations, only to have them destroy it. That gets rather depressing. These days, I write stuff for people.
It also held me back. Most corporations are fairly retro. HN does not represent the vast majority of developers. I like modern tech, but I also like shipping, so I tend to stay a year or two behind the bleeding edge. I also find “trendiness” to be a bit shallow and silly. I like to wait for the burrs to be worn off (I have taken OpenDoc classes from Apple Developer University. I've seen things, man). I'm a very practical person. I like writing stuff that works, not that wins Buzzword Bingo.
The other sites are just simple responsive WordPress sites, and aren’t designed to be eye-candy. They are actually quite modern, and work pretty well on phones. It’s just they aren’t ghastly, JavaScript-loaded, everscroll single-page sites, and aren’t trendy, at all. I’m not really trying to impress anyone. I just want to have a decent place to hang my stuff. I design my own sites, and Web design isn’t my forte.
I want to update them, but haven’t found the time. They work fine. I stopped putting my writing on Medium, because … Medium.
I like some of the static site generators, and maybe I’ll go with them, eventually.
I don’t try building high-Quality products, I succeed. I’ve been doing that for quite some time. I’m not particularly worried whether or not anyone uses them. I tend to build stuff that I (or my community) want. It’s a “market” that is quite underserved, as there aren’t vast profits or scale to be reaped. I’m happy to talk about it, but this isn’t really the venue for that.
I’ve found that there’s a great deal of satisfaction to be had, Serving a need, for folks that no one else cares about. The work interests me, more than fame and fortune. I spent my life, making stuff for corporations, only to have them destroy it. That gets rather depressing. These days, I write stuff for people.
It also held me back. Most corporations are fairly retro. HN does not represent the vast majority of developers. I like modern tech, but I also like shipping, so I tend to stay a year or two behind the bleeding edge. I also find “trendiness” to be a bit shallow and silly. I like to wait for the burrs to be worn off (I have taken OpenDoc classes from Apple Developer University. I've seen things, man). I'm a very practical person. I like writing stuff that works, not that wins Buzzword Bingo.