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hackers.town: 2021-08-21 Sat 10:55
Knowing how to program computers doesn’t mean I can fix your computer.
But
Having made many terrible user interfaces I can often help you navigate someone else’s terrible UI.
related: helping spouse figure out a WordPress dashboard.
hackers.town: 2021-08-21 Sat 18:48
Loud Dog just tried to hump one of the cats, so at least she’s decided she likes them.
Then she went over and started munching on the carpet and it looks like we need to have the talk about metaphors.
pared down to the base blog
![[cover-pared-down-to-the-base-blog.png|My rst.txt files become HTML before the SSG sees, so I may leave them]]
No more content shortcodes. No more — or at least not many — exotic content formats. Embedded video or tweet? Copy and paste the embed code from the host site. Need some fancy HTML for notes? Use raw HTML.
I need a base blog, with minimal dependencies on Hugo or any other SSG, so I can get serious with some of those others. “I’d need to port all my shortcodes” has blocked me from switching for the last year and a half (you accumulate a lot of cruft using the same site builder for six years). Now it won’t be such a blocker.
Plus, I can try the fancy stuff in Astro or Lektor or whatever and still have the base blog to fall back on. Heck, I could port the base blog to Eleventy or Zola or …