Get checked for astigmatism. 100% you have it

There can be other causes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_palinopsia. I think mine is caused by HPPD, but I can't say for sure

Keep in mind that Wikipedia itself tells you that "Wikipedia is not a newspaper"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTNEWS...

While having an "In the news" section on the front page

It clarifies exactly what that means. It doesn’t say that the information have to pass the test of time. Only that it is not a place of original reporting, unsourced gossip, etc.

Those two statements don't contradict each other.

Which is fine and not contradictory. It is not a newspaper (like HN) but it may overlap with some mainstream news (also like HN).

It's very simple to use. I tried a few static site generators and Astro gave me the most freedom and was the most approachable, pretty much no learning curve. You can use it with MULTIPLE web frameworks at the same time so it's pretty damn great. It gives you many options to do one thing so you can do things your way which is a delight for tinkerers

why is it a problem?

Because you can't use it in a CI

Good point. I‘ll be adding login and API support soon

why are you doing this?

Giving counterarguments? Wonder.

the naming is backwards then. An island is static, an ocean is not. See how it is a buzzword up to your interpretation?

now that you say it :o

Should be astro lakes or something.

Islands is just a catchy name I guess. I always thought the markojs terms for it made sense, but are more technical / less catchy: they called it “full page hydration” -> everything needs to be delivered as js and “component level hydration” -> islands, only specific component sub-trees need to be hydrated.

Then “sub-component level hydration” would be resumability like in qwik where only events and their dependencies get serialised as client js.

Yeah. Well to their defense, it is probably to be understood as islands of interactivity lost in a sea of static elements. The term is definitely more evocative.

This is terrible for someone who doesn't know anything and wants to make a website (the people this article is directed to)

> Don’t shop around for a CMS. Don’t even design or outline your website. Don’t buy a domain or hosting yet. Don’t set up a GitHub repository; I don’t care how fast you can make one.

I wonder how a beginner is supposed to know what a CMS is, a domain/hosting or a GitHub repository. This is not explained at all.

> Finished? Great. If you have a domain and hosting, make a new folder on your server called blog and upload your first post in there

I don't, I am a beginner! I don't even know what this means! And even if I do have a server, how do I upload a file to it?

> If you don’t have a domain or hosting yet, now’s the time to buckle down and do that. Unfortunately, I don’t have good advice for you here. Just know that it’s going to be stupid and tedious and bad and unfun. That’s just the way this is.

Oh thanks. But it really isn't. On netlify for example you can just drag a folder that contains your website and it's up immediately. Similarly on neocities.

> If you have images or other media in your post, be sure to use the absolute URL to a resource rather than a relative one.

You should consider explaining what they are and how to use them.

This post is useless for "people [who] want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck"

you should disclose that it's your portfolio

This was the first thing I noticed too. This is the most low effort post I have ever seen that high up on hacker news

It's been like this for a long time so it must be working. My guess is that fewer choices = easier to choose a video.

But it's not fewer choices, it's worse choices, or more distracting choices.