Thoughts on building and maintaining websites in an ever-changing digital landscape. From early 2000s HTML hacks to modern reflections on clean code, user experience, and why some sites survive 25 years while others disappear. Occasional nostalgia for the old web mixed with practical lessons I’ve picked up along the way.
“Socrates once said that “a life unexamined is a life unfulfilled.” Wordpress allowed the average person to examine life and share those thoughts with the world. I hope that blogging never goes away because I truly miss the freedom of the internet the way it was before it was destroyed by social media.
Did a little work on the site today to clean it up. I added X/twitter back to the header and footer. Not that I use twitter that much anymore… actually I don’t use social media much anymore but I will enjoy using the blog periodically now that it is a little more streamlined and easier to use…