I host my blog using plain HTML and I have a compile step - a Python script that...

lelanthran · 2025-07-28T11:33:04 1753702384

> I host my blog using plain HTML and I have a compile step - a Python script that converts markdown to HTML, which minimizes the energy I spend on... wrapping everything in HTML tags?

Same, except I skipped Python and went with bash (https://gist.github.com/lelanthran/2634fc2508c93a437ba5ca511... if you're curious).

If I had to do it again, I'd go with Python, but because it started off as a small 5 line shell script I thought "Why bother with Python?".

zwnow · 2025-07-28T09:58:38 1753696718

If you have a business website, customers expect a clean site with good visuals and a great user experience. Unless you are as big as Amazon. Sadly overengineering things is a necessary evil nowadays. If I had the choice I wouldn't even build websites mobile friendly but well... got no choice.

blueflow · 2025-07-28T10:06:40 1753697200

Hey, customers are people too, and they can and will say "no", too. "good looking" doesn't do it when it cannot do basic things.

zwnow · 2025-07-28T10:14:10 1753697650

Customers will use the thing that feels best, if there's a different tool that offers more but looks bad, most customers won't swap. People will use what they are accustomed to.