Notices by Lord Bowlich (lordbowlich@mastodon.social)

I see that my comment on HN that static sites shouldn't be pushed into having to have run HTTPS went over like a bucket of bricks.

Teenage me figured out how to get Apache running on the home PC so I could host my "home page"

Teenage me wouldn't have a clue how to get a cert set up.

Requiring HTTPS becomes an additional hurdle, easy for corporations to jump over, but horrible for the amateur.

I'd rather a playground for enthusiasts than a system built where the corp interests are central.

@Wolf480pl @saxnot @rysiek @pertho I use jekyll for my personal blog, but I wouldn't be able to use it for a client -- clients expect to be able to edit their content, and I can't get them to learn markdown let alone HTML or to run the build script to regenerate the site.

@cypnk Also, I shopped around a lot, audited classes, and even moved around the U.S. (and U.K.) chasing my education.

Pick a school because the teachers are good at teaching and have small, personal class sizes. Giant lectures taught by paragons of their field can be watched on youtube.

Don't buy into the idea that difficult is good. An excellent teacher makes the difficult easy. A lousy teacher relies on the fiction that they are "challenging" when really they just can't teach.