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2 months agoAre you familiar with neocities (geocities revival thing)? It’s not anti-scripting but it may scratch your itch.
Are you familiar with neocities (geocities revival thing)? It’s not anti-scripting but it may scratch your itch.
If your school has Hackathons, try to do those, ideally with friends. The atmosphere is honestly a bit horrible in my opinion and you may get instant imposter syndrome, but it gives you a project to talk about.
You can start by using plain, semantic HTML and grabbing a classless CSS with a license you like. (Check out this list.)
It’s good enough for a simple app or site, and it’s honestly impressive how good something can look with just this. It’s the “plain t-shirt and jeans” of web design.
It was pretty cool when I tried it on my personal machine. Only annoyance was that it would sometimes generate something I knew was wrong, but my auto-complete muscle memory would use it anyways.
My work machine is pretty underpowered though, so I get suggestions probably less than 1 in 100 times.