When my wife was super pregnant and overdue, friends were consistently asking for updates. I made a website called "is<wife's name>stillpregnant.com" and put a very very minimal website there. It was literally just route53 and cloudfront in front of an S3 bucket.
But that meant I needed to make updates from the hospital with my phone. I mean yes there were probably better options but I was a bit busy at the time to think of them.
Let me just say that writing raw HTML files using textedit for Android was not a great experience. It's just not the right interface for making complex text.
Maybe LLMs will help with this, allowing us to describe what we want at a higher level, through voice or text. But God help me I do not want to try to write valid HTML on a phone (after being awake for 35 of the previous 36 hours).
This is the kind of stuff you read on 4chan as memes about orange site.
While going through all that you decided to create a website of all things and update it by hand editing html.
Normal people, and I hate saying that, would create a facebook/WhatsApp group or something like that.
I'm not making fun of you or anything, not everyone has the same lives, I'm just amazed by the hn crowd.
I mean even if you are going to make a self-hosted site for this, like, there's software you can use where you're not using raw html. I use a static site generator that takes markdown. I don't find markdown too hard to write on mobile, as long as I don't need images.
I was about to comment that using an LLM to update a static site can be seen as overkill like using napalm bombing against mosquitoes,
and you post about those considering odd to have your own services to publish basic information...
> amazed by the hn crowd ... [whereas] Normal people...
I have seen members of the "madding crowd" amazed by people reading a book. And not one: many, in different increasingly bewildering capacities. (Including "law enforcement", calling it "suspicious behaviour".)
Be careful of what can be called "normalcy" nowadays.
Congratulations on parenthood. I thought the decision was very much overkill myself, but it's impressive you had the determination and skill to execute it while in the state you describe. I doubt I would be able to.
But that meant I needed to make updates from the hospital with my phone. I mean yes there were probably better options but I was a bit busy at the time to think of them.
Let me just say that writing raw HTML files using textedit for Android was not a great experience. It's just not the right interface for making complex text.
Maybe LLMs will help with this, allowing us to describe what we want at a higher level, through voice or text. But God help me I do not want to try to write valid HTML on a phone (after being awake for 35 of the previous 36 hours).