I'm in the early stages of building a headless CMS you can use with your existing website. A few other tools do this, but I noticed that none of them are made for writing, and the editing experience is lacking.
So, instead of having people write content in Google Docs or somewhere else and then copying it into the CMS, I want to create a place where you can enjoy writing and publishing your content.
If this sounds interesting to you, you can try it at https://pmkin.io/ :)
Your brownies are probably going to suck. Just because you can't be arsed to read more than two sentences about how to do something doesn't mean others can't.
It's 299 words (so close to a round number!) of worse-than-useless filler before the recipe. You get two amazon sponsored links and one blog plug for some author with that. There's also an interstitial you have to click through.
The very first thing on the page is a "Jump to recipe" link. If you too are a victim of dwindling attention spans like the rest of us, you have the option to skip straight past the beautiful photos and background.
> So this fall, as I flipped through Michelle Lopez’s new book Weeknight Baking, her recipe for Boxed Mix Brownies, From Scratch caught my eye. Would I finally be able to make homemade brownies that would be just as delicious as the ones from a box?
I can’t even fathom how anybody thinks that this is fine on any level (from the mentioned site, the first result about brownies for me, and one of the first few paragraphs). For a while, I rather pay for cooking and recipe books, because wasted time on these texts would worth way more than that money. Especially that even the recipes themselves are terrible most of the time on the internet.
But after a thread a few months ago here on HN, in which people praised w3schools how it’s really a good site, I’m not surprised on anything. If the people who really should know how these things work, and that there are better free alternatives for all content on that site, even encourage this bullshit, then this won’t improve at all.
- you can find your favorite recipes quickly because the pages are all stained and wrinkled
- you can reward the author for all the time they spent testing and honing those recipes
The real depressing thing here is the amount of whining about "wasted time" from folks looking for free cooking instructions on the 'Net. It's almost as bad as the "gimme teh codez" jerks on forums.
I was recently gifted a recipe book via Amazon. I was excited until I opened it up—it was just low quality LLM generated recipes, poorly typeset. There's no escape.
I never claimed to be a competent full-stack web developer.
I'm an AppSec engineer. I don't write a lot of code, and when I do, it's entirely scripts and occasionally modifying existing code (both front- and back-end, but more often back-end) to implement security fixes.
That said, I could probably hobble it together. It'd be ugly as sin with hand-written Web 1.0 style HTML and likely server-side rendering since I hate writing front-end code, but it really wouldn't be hard as long as you're keeping it simple - Just text posts (No video/pictures, though maybe that wouldn't be too hard to add?), no algorithm for engagement (just chronological ordered tweets), no analytics to determine what's trending. Obviously no mobile app.
I would compare writing code without Copilot to writing code without Intellisense and autocompletion. Sure you can do it, it's just going to be a lot slower and more work.
