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There's also an aesthetic homogeneity to the big social media sites that strikes me as bleak and depressing compared to the amateurish, handmade web pages of my
by jamesjyu 7y ago
There's also an aesthetic homogeneity to the big social media sites that strikes me as bleak and depressing compared to the amateurish, handmade web pages of my childhood. Different pages on the same website — even different entries in the same journal — might look wildly different
I touched on this in a recent post here: https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-painter/ https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-...
I empathize with the author on this, but I also appreciate that platforms have designed their frames to prioritize content. This has resulted in an explosion of creativity within the frame that we wouldn't have otherwise seen, because the platforms have allowed more people than ever to express themselves, and not just the folks who know how to hand code pages.
Homogeneity provided the consistency so that creators could focus within the frame.
- doctorpangloss 7y ago> designed their frames to prioritize content Not only is most content delivered snippets devoid of styling, the lowest common denominator Internet user is just (1) the only source of growth nowadays and (2) utterly conditioned to expect everything looks like a Google SERP, so (3) everything looks like a Google SERP.
- vishnuharidas 7y ago#offtopic - what CMS do you use in your blog?
- jamesjyu 7y agoJekyll static site with a custom template.
- simulacrumparty 7y agoWell, not Jekyll, but similar. I built my own static site generator.
- vishnuharidas 7y ago@jamesjyu @simulacrumparty I liked both! Simple and minimalistic. @simulacrumparty Is your staticgen opensource? Like to have a minimalistic one like that.