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Jameson Lopp | 12 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +32 
 In the 1990s I used to write the HTML for my web site by hand.

I still do, because I've yet to find a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't produce bloated code.
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mbrochh | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't know any professional web developer who uses a WYSIWIG editor. Writing proper HTML and CSS is the norm.
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antifragilemoney | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Dissapointing, im remembering imagining all the possibilities circa 2005 of a future WYSIWYG program that delivers on designing diverse types of amazing websites intuitively along with simple organized code in its source.
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dackdel | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ywah but for deployment ive started using bloated deployers. Nuxt vue etc
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dannybuntu | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 perhaps even a friendster profile? Was that a thing in the US? Or is it only myspace?
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KaliYuga | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 same here. Notepad was my friend then for html and java, and Sublime Text is my friend now for html and python.
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the axiom | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 that's how everybody does
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Karnage | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Tailwind CSS 🙌
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Jedai | 12 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 LLMs do a pretty good job producing minimal HTML and CSS code when properly prompted.
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bfgreen | 11 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ha, same! I recently moved off SqSp and built my own flat HTML/CSS website so that I could make it exactly what I wanted - simple, no executing code, no tracking - clean and easy. I thought I was a luddite!