Comment by SuboptimalEng 4 days ago
I started a portfolio website with Netlify (iirc), then I moved to Vue + Gridsome (on GitHub pages), then Next.js with Tailwind CSS, and was about to move to Vite.js over winter break.
That's 4 stacks over the course of 5-6 years. Not worth it.
Decided to do the sensible thing and use GitHub's README functionality. I prefer this approach and wish more folks in the tech community adopted it: https://github.com/SuboptimalEng
I hate the UI layer, for this reason. Nothing is ever stable. I'm looking for "Boring" and "Googleable in the age of AI slop". The other alternative are frameworks small enough to easily comprehend.
The UI is often tangential to the heavy lifting done by the back end. It often needs to be "just good enough".
+1. Not like my $5 hosting plan has less downtime than Github. Well... maybe? Fewer moving parts perhaps. But it's not immune.
I like to think that when GitHub (or Google, or Netflix, ...) are down, I am not alone.
A few million people are holding their breath - unlike in the case of my self-hosted site where I am alone to bring it back online.
sounds like a self-inflicted problem really. Why do you even change stack that much if what you want is a simple functionality?
This is an interesting idea! Honestly I didn't even know Github had a per-user readme until you mentioned it