Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Every time I open GitHub there is a chance it will be worse than it was previously. For the last few days all sourced code files look like this. But hey, there is a Copilot button!

#github #enshittification

it feels hard to talk about how to write websites that feel manageable to maintain with like 0.5% of my brain because there are a thousand tiny and not always logical decisions like "use bash scripts to run my local dev server, because then it's `bash scripts/run.sh` no matter what programming language the project is in"

or "refuse to use any database other than SQLite because I had a bad experience operating Postgres once and I feel more comfortable with sqlite"

i like to make websites and I've been slowly realizing that my requirements for making websites might be a little weird

- I have maybe 20 websites (mostly static but not all)
- I want to spend basically 0 time maintaining them, maybe 5 minutes every 2 months at most
- I need to be able to ignore a project for 3 years and then come back and be able to develop it easily

i feel like all of this stuff makes my choice of tech stack different than if I worked on one site full-time

@mauve

I love "the field guide to understanding human error"