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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been working at organizing a bunch of stuff I've been collecting over the years .... data, writing, lists, ideas, whatever ..... I kept using all sorts of services, apps, websites, cloud services and all sorts of crap to maintain them all but eventually it all becomes too complicated and breaks down.

I've since discovered just using simple text files and services that just use simple text mark down ... no special service, nothing proprietary, easily transferable and interoperable.

I started looking at websites the same way ..... I don't care what it looks like, I just want to read the information ..... you made it too hard for me to read your simple text info? You're asking me to turn off my ad blockers and turn on Java script? All to read 200 words on your site? I'll skip it and move on to the next site that will allow me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I manage a web dev team. We try to optimise as much as possible but then there's all sorts of tracking that gets tacked on by personalisation teams, opti teams, things like Tik Tok, Facebook, Twitter/X scripts inserted too... It's pretty shit. And sometimes when things break it makes it super hard to debug too