Lyons in beta

2025-08-11

Hollie on telling the indieweb community they just want to make websites and not "learn to code":

In one conversation with four or five people, one person said, "I don't understand why everyone doesn't just learn to code."

I was floored. Yeah, and I don't understand why everyone who wears pants doesn't also get excited about learning how to select fabric and choose a pattern and then download that pattern and cut it out and tape the pieces together, then cut each pattern piece individually out of scrap fabric and then make a toile and then use the advice from at least three different sewing forums and two books on patternmaking to fit the toile, and then start the process over from scratch, this time with the really GOOD linen and using all French seams, but WHADDYA GONNA DO?? PEOPLE, AMIRIGHT?

It felt like the general attitude was, if you want to make websites, you not only need to learn all that, but you obviously must want to, and if you don't, why are you here?

Hollie makes some excellent points about why "just a website" actually has some serious upsides, but even if they didn't we should be more welcoming than this.