making a website is hard - - cathode ray dude's blog

i wrote like 8,000 words about how much i hate trying to make websites in the modern world and got so mad and disgusted that i just abandoned it. then i tried to write something nicer and that didn't work either. the best i can manage is not being outright vitriolic

i should be able to host my own blog where i can write posts in a WYSIWYG editor, not in goddamn markdown, and where i can drag images into the editor to upload and embed them. it's pathetic that what we could do with frontpage in 1998 is no longer possible with any available tooling, and it's because the only two parties that exist in the website creation space at this point are

“simply do this 24 times if you want 24 images. if you make a typo, you'll find out when the image doesn't load!”

yes i know some ssg's try to smooth over parts of this. i don't care, it's not enough, i fundamentally hate the way they work and it is a massive impedance to me getting anything done, no discussion, this is not up for debate. i just fucking want to see what i'm working on without a six step process, the way i could with frontpage or dreamweaver or microsoft expressions, twenty five fucking years ago.

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