The companies website isn't for the founder, the marketing manager, or the board. It's for the person you've never met - the customer weighing up a purchase, the lead chasing a phone number, the visitor sizing up your credibility or the member signing up to access gated content.Decision-makers tend to forget this because they're too close to it.
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- May 2026
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websmith.studio websmith.studio
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- Apr 2026
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brennan.day brennan.day
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the only people that give a fuck about creating static sites would much prefer to use a (free and local) IDE and a terminal
This isn't true. Most static site generators just have so little regard for UX that that's the only (or only reasonable) way to use them.
Self-modifying static site "generators" (incl. page builders) could and should be an entire thing, but it's the professional-developer class that's opposed to making that offering available to the public.
The general public also doesn't really give a shit about "CMSes". They don't care. They just want to update the website and be able to create new pages. It's the semi-technical folks whose brains have been tainted by déformation professionnelle that insist on CMSes as the (only) solution.
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- Feb 2026
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Yup. When I was in college, they assigned everyone with a task to design and develop a website for a local business founded by the elderly and for the elderly. Worked super hard (was just getting into web design and dev) and created, what I and my friends thought, was a beautiful site form scratch. I thought I had a good shot at winning but they ended up picking a website that was covered in one color and used a very basic free pre-built bootstrap theme. It even had a little footer that said ‘theme from xyz’ at the bottom of the page when they presented it to the client. Old people and their taste can be surprising.
The complainants' comments here are pure occupational psychosis.
See also: déformation professionnelle.
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- Dec 2025
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For those who don't know, Warner Bros keeps this anachronistic website online
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- Oct 2023
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sindresorhus.com sindresorhus.com
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code leveraging Buffer-specific methods needs polyfilling, preventing many valuable packages from being browser-compatible
... so don't rely on it.
If the methods are helpful then reimplement them (as a library, even) and use that in your code. When passing data to code that you don't control, use the underlying
ArrayBufferinstance.The very mention of polyfilling here represents a fundamental misapprehension about how to structure a codebase and decide which abstractions to rely on and which ones not to...
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- Jan 2023
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If the differentiator is the ease of putting a new application out into the world, that value prop is competing against the value prop of e.g. today’s full-stack web frameworks, right?
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