Before, I built my website in React. Now, it is being rebuilt in plain HTML/CSS (with some help from Bootstrap and jQuery to make things like mobile responsiveness less tedious). After spending a considerable amount of time with fancy frameworks, why take a step "backwards"?

I got blocked?!

I was trying out some different Linux distributions, and decided to give the fully-free distro Trisquel a spin. To my dismay, I found that my own site was blocked blocked for some JavaScript-y reasons. It turns out that all sites that make use of React (or at least create-react-app, the tool I used to bootstrap my site) are blocked when certain sorts of JavaScript are blocked.

It is my goal to produce informative, unobtrusive websites that are easily indexed, linked, downloaded, etc. If I can accomplish this goal without freedom/privacy threatening software, why not choose simpler tools?

Next steps

I am becoming more interested in static site generators (such as Pelican, which was used to make this site) because the HTML/CSS they spit out is compatible in most places and they also make things like RSS feeds easy to do. I'll be trying out various static generators in addition to writing plain HTML/CSS and maybe some JavaScript.