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When my wife was super pregnant and overdue, friends were consistently asking for updates. I made a website called "is<wife's name>stillpregnant.com" and put a
by mabbo 3y ago
When my wife was super pregnant and overdue, friends were consistently asking for updates. I made a website called "is<wife's name>stillpregnant.com" and put a very very minimal website there. It was literally just route53 and cloudfront in front of an S3 bucket.
But that meant I needed to make updates from the hospital with my phone. I mean yes there were probably better options but I was a bit busy at the time to think of them.
Let me just say that writing raw HTML files using textedit for Android was not a great experience. It's just not the right interface for making complex text.
Maybe LLMs will help with this, allowing us to describe what we want at a higher level, through voice or text. But God help me I do not want to try to write valid HTML on a phone (after being awake for 35 of the previous 36 hours).
- adithyassekhar 3y agoThis is the kind of stuff you read on 4chan as memes about orange site. While going through all that you decided to create a website of all things and update it by hand editing html. Normal people, and I hate saying that, would create a facebook/WhatsApp group or something like that. I'm not making fun of you or anything, not everyone has the same lives, I'm just amazed by the hn crowd.
- Pxtl 3y agoI mean even if you are going to make a self-hosted site for this, like, there's software you can use where you're not using raw html. I use a static site generator that takes markdown. I don't find markdown too hard to write on mobile, as long as I don't need images.
- mdp2021 3y agoI was about to comment that using an LLM to update a static site can be seen as overkill like using napalm bombing against mosquitoes, and you post about those considering odd to have your own services to publish basic information... > amazed by the hn crowd ... [whereas] Normal people... I have seen members of the "madding crowd" amazed by people reading a book. And not one: many, in different increasingly bewildering capacities. (Including "law enforcement", calling it "suspicious behaviour".) Be careful of what can be called "normalcy" nowadays.
- mabbo 3y agoI'm not disagreeing with you. This was a very bad idea. But I was a few hours away from becoming a parent, hadn't slept much in days, and was not thinking very well. Sub-optimal decisions were made.
- zogrodea 3y agoCongratulations on parenthood. I thought the decision was very much overkill myself, but it's impressive you had the determination and skill to execute it while in the state you describe. I doubt I would be able to.
- bruh2 3y agoThis is so cool
- bshacklett 3y agoNot exactly what you described, but I was reminded of this LLM-based prototyping tool: https://youtu.be/nhTyuuDZe4w?si=5bVPU7g5-WXJitlY https://youtu.be/nhTyuuDZe4w?si=5bVPU7g5-WXJitlY