@drwho @mttaggart Back-end server, front-end display. Could do server side rendering but everything is client side now so… also that’d be a new challenge.

Problem I’ve had the few times I’ve started is they’re all a royal pain in the ass, documentation is terrible, and require so much yak shaving to get started that it’s months before I feel like trying again.

Perl scripts in cgi-bin was so much easier.

@mttaggart @hrbrmstr Even a brief look at most sites’ CSS can be terrifying. So much bloat. It’s amazing anything works at all.

Sometimes I miss the simplicity of H1-H6 and OL and all that. An occasional HR. Just plain old structured documents.

They have played us for absolute fools….

@mttaggart I have a handful of projects I want to start on but am stuck at the “which frameworks do I use?” and “how do I even set them up?” phase.

Even for simple work-related hacks. “Just point Claude at it.” Happy to (just to get past the boilerplate stage), but even that doesn’t answer all the questions I have.

Nor does it fill me with confidence that I won’t be stuck woth stupid architectural decisions I’ll have to work around.

My mind is full of algorithms and features. I got nowhere to put em.