Comment by moring
1 day ago
I did not expect how bad this was handled in the article:
> It’s easy to forget how simple a website can be. > ... > If you don’t have a domain or hosting yet, now’s the time to buckle down and do that. Unfortunately, I don’t have good advice for you here. Just know that it’s going to be stupid and tedious and bad and unfun. That’s just the way this is.
Yup, it blatantly left out the hard part, and at the same time contradicted the initial claim almost literally.
Kinda reminds me of reading a dozen articles that went, "Learning how to typeset a document with LaTeX. This article assumes that you have LaTeX installed already." ages ago.
Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?
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> Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?
The point of those articles is how to make a website or typeset a LaTeX document. If you read one and find out you don't have a prerequisite, go google for an article on how to get a domain name or install LaTeX --- there is plenty of those too.