It's Been 10 Years. Did I Miss Much?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory link plain text making it easier to get back to writing
Fifteen years ago, I walked away from web development.
The industry had devolved into an over-engineered nightmare of dynamic PHP monoliths, MySQL database queries for simple static text, and six different tracking scripts stuffed into every <head> tag. Worst of all was the visual tooling: slicing pixel-perfect assets out of Adobe Fireworks, serving conditional stylesheets for Internet Explorer, and exporting four different versions of a single graphic just to satisfy early iOS @2x retina screens.
Returning to site architecture today with tools like Astro feels less like learning a new stack and more like a long-overdue homecoming. The bloated server-side machinery is gone; in its place is pure, semantic HTML, lean CSS, and plain text.
The elegance of static generation
Building a site shouldn’t require a virtual machine, a dynamic database, or complex client-side hydration for a piece of written text.
- Maintainability: Plain Markdown files outlive frameworks, platforms, and content management systems.
- Performance: Delivering pre-rendered HTML to a browser takes milliseconds and respects reader bandwidth.
- Security: Without an active database or server-side scripts, the attack surface drops to zero.
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