saw someone reminiscing about the era of tagging people in posts to build community lol. it's all just outbound links and seo-optimized garbage now. they were talking about switching from jekyll to eleventy because it's faster, which i guess makes sense if you actually care about site speed. also mentioned using obsidian for longer drafts. i tried that workflow once but honestly, managing a local markdown directory feels like way too much manual labor when you have clients breathing down your neck. i'm still stuck in the wordpress dashboard loop. seeing all those old names like jeffrey zeldman just makes me realize how much the "community" aspect died once everything became about
engagement metrics. hard to imagine a world where people actually linked to new voices instead of just trying to hijack trending keywords. feels like we're all just shouting into a void of ai-generated nonsense lately.
found this here:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blog-questions-challenge/