Fletch137

IMO it's essentially marketing themselves. There can be good lessons there and they can be worth reading, but it's important to remember that the post itself is often there to "show expertise" rather than inform.

I love the illustrations in the slides. How long did it take you to learn flip chart drawing and how did you do the overlays in LaTeX?

This article conviced me decide to research and possibly try using Dexedrine/Dextroamphetamine. Wish me the best! I always wanted to try a potentially powerful nootropic.

Reply to a deleted comment, mentioning that once the client wants to make edits themselves you end up back at wordpress:

Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I wouldn't trust most of my clients with a wordpress login so that's never been an option. Coming from wordpress sites that clients have installed all manner of plugins on and I have to fix every two weeks, updating some text files manually is a minor issue. I will never go back to wordpress hell.

I am looking into online editing of the content files to address this issue, but I would rather stick with making the edits myself than see a client site with 5 H1s in a page.

IMO, just about any will do, but the simplest thing that'll get the job done is probably the best choice - less inertia.

If all you need is a markdown-powered blog, then choose something that does only that. I use Gatsby because I'm familiar with React and it does what I need it to do.

I provide a few small businesses with simple websites to advertise their services (opening times and the like) where wordpress would have been the "traditional" choice, and the main thing I've learned from this is to stay away from loads of plugins or extra functionality until you absolutely need it - it's just more maintenance overhead and things to mess about with/configure. When I update a client site, I simply edit some text and regenerate the site - no plugins to update or config files to edit.

I'll be honest, as I saw the big "NO", I thought "not another one of these" and closed the tab.

Perhaps seemingly showing a result before I've answered questions is an anti-pattern.

I might be a bit grumpy, but I'm getting really sick of these type of pages. There's no information, just a smart-arse "NO". It doesn't help anyone and it's so overdone I don't think it's funny anymore.

I like to use: `alias sp='vim ~/notes/scratchpad-$(date +"%m-%d-%Y-%T")'`

Their "twennybars" are good too. Perfect for hiking or generally being on the go all day, if a little expensive.