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 @beep I've been wrestling with the idea of setting up a personal website, mostly as an exercise in setting up a workflow with git and MkDocs and so on. And the more I'd try to imagine doing it, the less enthusiasm I have for it. And right now I'm thinking, what's the point of trying to do it "professionally", when the "professional" model is just obviously extremely bad? 7 comments
 @foolishowl My goodness, I regret I have but one star to give this *extremely good* post šš There are so many unacknowledged biases built into the tools we use. We have to acknowledge them if we ever want to stop disenfranchising people.  @foolishowl @beep Yeah, for my personal website I've been trying to make it less bloated. I used self-hosted WordPress for many years but got tired of the hosting costs going up and constant upgrades. A few years ago I migrated the whole thing to Jekyll/GitHub Pages and I've been pretty happy with this as the site is now static and hosting is free. I can't do anything beyond simple edits using my phone or support comments/ActivityPub, but overall it's worth it to me. At one point I had a comments system running on a statically rendered Hugo site on GitHub pages, but Heroku, which I was using to power it, sunset their free tier. My immediate reaction was pleasure to not support comments any more. @foolishowl @beep don't be discouraged. The reason it's called bloat is because it is unnecessary for the site to function. If you want a site that looks professional, it shouldn't and doesn't have to contain bloat. @csdummi @foolishowl @beep You could easily argue that if a site is bloated then it is the opposite of professional. @foolishowl I absolutely hear you. Personally, Iād love to hear *why* someone might exercise thought and restraint with how they built their portfolio; but for the broader industry, the incentives feel pretty thoroughly broken. (I hope you do make your personal website, though!) |
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@beep In recent years I've been in a couple of socialist groups that over-rely on the same software tools and practices for supporting them that prevail in the tech industry. It's understandable, but I think it's important to understand that many of these tools and practices have assumptions about social structure built into them and it's important to question them.