derekzhouzhen

A personal web application is one that is written by me, hosted by me, and have a grand total of one user, me.

This is exactly Termux's point, to subvert Android into linux cheaply. Same for MinGW or MSYS2. I want to invest as few as possible on Andriod or Windows, while still able to use them in the way that I prefer.

How is it different from plain old password?

1) User goes to BAD website and enter credentials

2) BAD website use GOOD website to check if credential is valid

3) Pwned

It is just MITM attack. The moment you go to BAD and enter credential (password or one time code) you are done.

My blog is essentially my journal; no one else reads it. However, knowing someone else _might_ read it is making me spend the effort to write in better style, to watch my language, so I would not be embarrassed by myself. That's the value of blog over journal for me.

I used to use TRAMP but now I just run terminal emacs through mosh. Everything just work and snappy, if you can live without the emacs GUI.

Yes, you can kiss reactivity good-bye and just render the whole page on any state change.

No, generating HTML string and setting innerHTML is unsafe and slower than necessary. It is better to create DOM elements programmatically. HTML is for serialization of the DOM tree; if everything is done in javascript then you don't need HTML as an intermediate step.

You can use shadow-dom without using web-component. web-component and shadow-dom are orthogonal to eachother:

* web-component is a way to attache javascript to certain elements. There are other ways to do it, but sometime this way feel cleaner, like when you do server-side rendering and not using any javascript framework.

* shadow-dom is a way to organize your styles. As you said there are other ways to do it, but I find it useful because it offers full isolation, and is compatible with browsers 3 years back.

Me too, but you and I cannot afford a faster horse, or even the same horse we once had. The horse they use to offer was an illusion, a bait for the new Tiktok thing. Sooner or later, people will forget that horses once exist.

_realized_ utility.

Also, the article is about fully managed Wordpress vs self-hosted (or PaaS hosted) SSG. If the choice is between self-hosted Wordpress vs self-hosted SSG, I bet the outcome will be very different.

Now, you may wonder why the OP was not make an apple to apple comparison, like fully managed Wordpress vs fully managed SSG. Well, fully managed SSG does not exists, because it won't sell!

There is no paradox at all: simplicity is beautiful but complexity sells. The author thinks that value come from realized utility. However, in most market segments, value came from perception. With complexity (even useless ones), you can boost perceived value. How do you impress people when all the greatness is under the hood?

I use several SSGs and wrote one myself. I still can't recommend any SSG to people willing to pay.

I wish more people publish negative testimony like you do. It shows guts.

I feel your pain, but I refuse to cave. Say, 10% of the links fail to load, so what? It is their loss, not mine.