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As a frontend developer, I primarily use JavaScript. It's the language I know best, although I've dabbled in others. Anybody who spends enough time hanging around The Orange Site will hear the same two tropes about JavaScript repeated over and over again.

1. JavaScript frameworks (especially React) are bad, because they are too heavy. Just build HTML sites with a little JS for interactivity!
2. The JavaScript ecosystem is bad because there is a new framework every week!

I can't argue that React isn't heavy, because it definitely is. When building smaller personal projects, I challenge myself to avoid using a framework, and this is totally fine for a project that I plan on finishing in a weekend. I can be virtually guaranteed that my dependency-free vanilla JS™ will run just fine without maintenance until the internet stops being built out of HTML and JavaScript.

I do take umbrage with the second point. There have essentially only been 3 actual play

This is the first of hopefully many posts on the idea of using federated social media as a backend. Blogging is hard. Social media posting is easy. So maybe the blog can be built from the social media?

Think about it, you get so much out of the box using someone else's site as your CMS. Lemmy takes markdown, and turns it into server-generated HTML which it serves up via RSS. It includes comments, and when Lemmy federates, those comments could come from members of any other Lemmy instance, offering users a low-overhead to commenting. Lemmy even includes image hosting!

It's currently running in a very barebones manner at https://festive-euclid-26b79e.netlify.app/

This is the first of hopefully many posts on the idea of using federated social media as a backend. Blogging is hard. Social media posting is easy. So maybe the blog can be built from the social media?

Think about it, you get so much out of the box using someone else's site as your CMS. Lemmy takes markdown, and turns it into server-generated HTML which it serves up via RSS. It includes comments, and when Lemmy federates, those comments could come from members of any other Lemmy instance, offering users a low-overhead to commenting. Lemmy even includes image hosting!

It's currently running in a very barebones manner at https://festive-euclid-26b79e.netlify.app/

In the late 2000s I didn't have a smartphone yet. Most of us didn't. My first smartphone was an iPhone 3 back in the days when Apple was still making good products. It was obvious even then that phones would replace 'unitaskers'. While that has been an obvious benefit in some ways, it has actively made certain things worse.

The last really good device I ever bought was a Flip Video camera. It is better at what it does in most respects than a smartphone, and while it does have some limitations, in some ways those limitations are benefits. And while you can buy unitasking video cameras today, most don't offer the same benefits as the Flip.

Replaceable Batteries: We all have them at home. Rechargables are cheap enough to have a large supply at home, and you can buy disposable batteries anywhere if you run out while on the go. At the time, this didn't seem like a big deal, bu

I'm fascinated by the idea of creating my own programming language.