Comment by mycall
12 days ago
In the pursuit of ultimate long term functional web pages, how does that affect maintainability, e.g. changing requirements? In my mind, the less characters used the less effort it takes to change it, but this might be obsolete thinking wrt AI assisted (or fully written) sites.
I agree! As a journalist that codes his own site/blog, I've never took the time to learn anything more complex than good and old HTML and CSS to structure a page, and the short incursions I had in complex system (node, SCSS, frameworks), the returns for the kind of sites I developed was so little I couldn't be bothered to climb the learning curve.
HTML + CSS + sprinkles of vanilla JS is the perfect recipe for readable, fast, and high resilient web pages.