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Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

never doubt the elegance of good semantic HTML and a few lines of classless CSS

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and I find it kind of funny, and I find it kind of sad, that the sane standards of web development are now considered elegance

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So that's where I heard it! Thank you very much!

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

It was the best I ever had...

[–] lung@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

After a few years of corporate framework stacks, I'm back to writing plain HTML/JS/CSS, and wow, what a joyful float down a river that is

Even with no transpiler or minification, bespoke HTML is extremely efficient and pleasant to use. I write little script tags with query selectors where I need them, they get efficiently loaded on the pages that use them

I use Hugo to do imports / classic server side rendering, and it's stupid fast and efficient. I can compile 500 pages in 0.5s on a dualcore machine with 4gb of ram. Resources (like images) can be processed, converted into multiple file types and resolutions and then automatically cached. It feels so zen