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my father (75yo) still obsessively updates his personal website (using FrontPage!) For years he was proud that his article on Hill's Criteria of Causation was
by abruzzi 6y ago
my father (75yo) still obsessively updates his personal website (using FrontPage!) For years he was proud that his article on Hill's Criteria of Causation was the top hit on google for a search on "hills criteria" or similar. At the time Wikipedia had no article on it (he's now #4 since wikipedia has a article as well as a couple of medical sites.)
His site has the look of a personal webpage from 1997, but since retiring, he still works on articles and publishes them on his site. His site is a mix of scholarly articles (Anthropology), old syllabi, and personal stuff.
- mro_name 6y agoThat's great! Tools are just means to an end and overrated compared to the actual end. Changing quarterly to the "most efficient" tool is a lot of work over time. Sticking to one seems to get things done. And static websites save you the headaches of security - I think your father can't imagine what it means having to patch a critical bug in node/php/mysql/whatever during your vacation when travelling. And I guess, he may not think of this kind of publishing as being for the "technically minded" or "tech-savvy" ones only. And the stuff can be read in ages to come.