It's just great to see work on self-hosted cms, and PHP nevertheless, the easiest one to host. Open source has forgotten the art of making the web open to everyone, not just to BigTech employees.
That market does not exist, it will never make money (maybe from leeching the public sector but everyone makes some scraps there). In fact the idea that laws will create a market was a bad idea.
It would be nice if we had the option to ask for $1 to our visitors, but we don't because the credit card and payments racket works its magic. Just what are websites supposed to do to survive? Shutting down is not a valid answer
Of course the #1 culprits are the advertisers themselves, because they don't care about their craft, they are lazy and just push all their money to google. But the web should be like an arcade machine where people can pay to get content, and current regulation makes that impossible
It's hard to participate. It's good for finding interesting ideas and people, but participating is a job on its own , since everything seems to attract the wrong people. Too public, too much anxiety
The solution is to move the burden of accountability from low-level management (which is replaced by machines) to the people in charge. CEOs should not be immune from jail
Aren't static generators much harder to grok for nonprogrammers than wordpress?
This is a non-problem. The problem is not wordpress. The problem is that modern browser programming, and modern javascript in particular are way more complicated than they need to be for lay people to build their own websites as they did in the good old days. That's why everyone moves their communities in discord instead of building a self-hosted forum. We need to be talking about how to make the browser an accessible platform for everyone again (including moms and pops, remember Frontpage?). NOT to keep over-complicating even the smallest tasks and build frameworks that only benefit the BigCorps
In the long term though this is not good for the home countries, they are left behind and at best become tourist destinations. There is no country that pulled itself forward this way, not even with remote work. Eastern europe is an example with very low growth rates since the fall of communism.
The problem is not the website that uses wordpress instead of some 'artisanal' static site generator. The former is something that mom and pop can self-host, the latter is something the aspiring programmer enjoys doing. The problem is that modern browser programming, and modern javascript in particular are way more complicated than they need to be for people to build their own websites. That's why everyone moves their communities in discord instead of building a self-hosted chat. The browsers are powerful today, but the APIs can be really complex. I have webrtc in mind in particular, dealing with that is something that easily can demoralize someone who is not a professional programmer. Even in the old days of Flash, you could host a Red5 server on a VPS and have a video conferencing app going, nowadays most people go with SaaS solutions because it's too damn hard. We need to be talking about how to make the browser an accessible platform wher everyone can build (including moms and pops, remember Frontpage?). NOT to keep over-complicating even the smallest tasks in order to please the BigCorps (looking at you, CSS complexity). Instead of another framework let's bring in more <tags> (Hello, <marquee>)
The reason for pursuing clocks is to use them to assess the efficacy of longevity interventions. Currently, with an error bar ~3 years they are not bad at all, and can be used to assess aging relative to a starting point, as you suggest.