Digital pruning

After 13 years of owning a website it’s time for some pruning. Pages have come and go, stayed, listed, unlisted. Many design iterations, about 120 by now.

I thought having a website was a sink in which I could let my creative ego flow. It turns out this image was wrong. It is the faucet as much as the sink. Too much time is spent tinkering in this. I poopoo people playing video games or watching sport, it’s the same, a blatant, wannabe virtuous distraction I can’t forego while being a father. I’m in a different stage of life. No fixed header and quirky UI bits.

I thought I was cleverly escaping the hype wave and playing a tiny role, being on the internet by having my modest property.

It’s been a fantastic tool to refine my creative persona. I juiced it well. I still recommend it to Junior and those who haven’t tried having their own website. It’s a great way to unplug for social media. It is like building you own house. Not as fancy but much better bond.

I’ve written increasingly personal stuff. Aside I store files, mostly image: designs, photos, old artifacts, inspiration. I don’t have an CMS or backend of any sort. I upload directly via FTP, straight to prod, yolo.

Being surrounded by typescript masters and app devs makes me want to dumb down my website stack even further. React is cool but I’m really not supporting the use to build websites. I get it for apps but I cannot believe the amount of tech it takes to render a bit of html and css. I blame the design engineers who flooded the showcases. Web won the fight. A browser is a browser. It’s the original cross platform tech.

I’m ditching jQuery. Maybe not even any javascript? Php stays.

3.5 pages: home (+now) - stuff - words.

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