Non-Serious Technology

I still want an alternative to JS. Which has a syntax similar to HTML or Bash

"I'd like to have 7 letters of my logo appear on the site (while the critical 12mb bg image is loading), and the letters should each be filled with looping video. I'll send you the 20s videos for each letter that shouldn't add that much right?"

I have managed to trim the critical image from 42mb, convinced them that the videos should be at most 2s and implemented pixijs to load chunks of the image like map tiles in the background. But sometimes the requirements are just too much.

Old fart here. I wrote my company's first website in notepad in HTML 30 years ago.

Yes, your grandpa knows HTML.

some dynamic stuff is helpful, like upload progress - before that, you'd just wait not knowing how much is left, network disconnects and reverse proxy timeouts would be very disruptive.

Reported for seriousposting.

Yeah, I know HTML 😏

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CSS would go a long way to improve readability, but it's a double-edged sword - you can just as easily use it to make readability worse.

HTML is horrible to write by hand.

My preferred solution for static content at the moment is either:

1. Markdown converted to HTML with Pandoc. This is great for writing articles.
2. The Lume static site generator. Lume is a cut above your run-of-the-mill SSG (Hugo, Jekyll, etc.) because a) it uses Deno so it's extremely easy to set up - no NPM nonsense, and b) you can use TSX and components. TSX is far nicer than writing untyped raw HTML and components mean you can reuse stuff.

The style of writing here is also deeply unoriginal. There are like 15 justafuckingwebsite.com copies already. Please stop.

What about CSS?

I mean, i make a living using HTML.