Notices by Blake Watson :prami: (bw@social.lol)

NOBODY MOVE

It is mind boggling how much JavaScript exists just to help people avoid writing CSS.

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@aral I’m a couple of sections into the readme and this might be the coolest web thing I’ve seen in a long time. Perfect for the home-cooked apps I enjoy building.

I hate npm so much. I had a situation where I couldn't work on a project because I couldn't get the dev environment running locally.

I’ve gotten to the point where I hate even having a build step at all. The benefits are not worth it in the long run.

I feel like I should be able to create a moderately complex website (or even a web app) and it should be able to run for a minimum of five years without needing compatibility updates.

The worst part of this is that the web platform is probably one of the most backward compatible runtimes in the history of computing. You can take some HTML/CSS/JS from 20 years ago and it will probably run just fine in a modern browser now. Build steps ruin this.

If you build a web application with no build steps, you could pick up working on that project a decade from now and not have to worry about not being able to work because of compatibility issues.