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web dev is so confusing to me (i'm an electrical engineer), but I've built plenty of (simple) websites. I try to avoid...everything. Right now I create websites

web dev is so confusing to me (i'm an electrical engineer), but I've built plenty of (simple) websites. I try to avoid...everything. Right now I create websites with hugo which gets me up and running very fast. I hate dealing with backend stuff, so on my latest projects I have a cron job running a python script, that python script updates some markdown files, and then it does a push to redeploy my website on netlify every 1-2 days (the data doesnt need updated much faster). Maybe its insane, but its simple and it works.

gjvnq 3y ago
As a long time linuxer and dev, I like your setup: it's simple, easy to understand, and gets the job done.
ksec 3y ago
Not insane. With SSD there are no longer any reason we need complicated Wordpress or any blog platform for 95% of cases. It should just be a simple HTML file. Something like HTMX ( and more ) should really have been built into browser 10+ years ago. I really wish we could do a whole reboot of the web.
qup 3y ago
I'm an experienced web dev, and I've arrived at a very similar solution for a couple of projects recently. If hugo and a cron job CAN do the job, they're almost certainly one of the best setups you can go with. So, opposite of insane. The absolute correct choice. The outrageous complexity of web tooling is a big hindrance if you can be served by a conceptually simple solution like yours.