And if you're European, participate in the elections in June to get more parties into the EU bodies that will take legislative action against companies like Apple. The EU is the reason Apple is even attempting this silliness because Apple was designated a gatekeeper in the Digital Markets Act: one of the great EU acts for consumers.
A big group of Apple fanbase are not ignorant, rather willing accomplices. Just look at the downvotes here. They will do anything to defend Apple's rogue behavior - like resorting to whataboutery, blaming the EU or even claiming that PWAs are bad.
My theory is that by defending Apple, they're trying to make themselves feel important with their overpriced products.
Sweet! Hopefully this can help with the gap I hear from experienced web devs and newer developers that find themselves too dependent on their frameworks.
I will never have a bleeding heart for people who chose to surround themselves in products from that terrible company. They've done anti consumer dealings for decades and have lead the way to other similar companies to follow suit with little to no pushback because of it. Jobs was a terrible human. Tim's no different.
I don't think you're looking for a registrar, you are looking for some third party DNS server that acknowledges "the domain scam" I guess.
All the major and minor DNS providers rely on the w3 registrar to populate their domain name to IP addresses. So services like hover or GoDaddy will register with the registrar and then DNS services will get your routing info from them.
I'm not aware of any other registrar out there or some DNS service that allows you to submit your own routing info.
why would using a cdn I don't control, from a non-contracted 3rd party and their "PageShield" app reduce my supply chain attack risk?
Am I not just increasing the attack surface since now my visitors can be victim not only by my servers being compromised but now also by the 3rd party being compromised?
I don’t know what you’re doing and what you’re really asking.
It doesn't sound like you read the OP.
You want a static site? Hugo or jekyll.
As I said, I was unable to find a theme that has all the design features of a builder like Squarespace. So to make a professional website with an SSG seems to require coding knowledge.
There are options for contact forms but it will require additional setup.
Yes, I mentioned that. Many of them are limited or costly:
250/mo for free and $8/mo for unlimited with https://web3forms.com/ is the best I've seen so far (besides the completely free one which I'm not sure about).
I would 100% use Wordpress. It's far and away the most mature option with the most diverse ecosystem of plugins. That survey you linked to is hardly a controlled study. I bet a lot of the folks using Wordpress would have low satisfaction with other CMSes.
Also, part of the problem there is that that Wordpress ecosystem is highly enshittified and monetized (probably contributing to dissatisfaction, especially with people who were messing with Wordpress ten years ago and remember what it was like when there were a million cool Open Source plugins that did what ever you wanted for free). But there is still a lot you can do for free if you know your way around it.
You can get ChatGPT to write code for you, and it does some things very well, but don't use it if you don't know how to code yourself. It's asking for trouble of both the "security vulnerability" kind and the "I don't know how to put all these pieces together" kind. The best advice is not to deploy any AI written code that you don't understand. AIs confidently make mistakes and get stuff wrong all the time.
One thing that ChatGPT IS good at is pointing you at Open Source plugins.
There IS a big security concern with self hosting Wordpress, but wordpress.com's hosting is pretty affordable.
Given your use case and the fact you seem willing to spend a little money, I think Wordpress with Divi is a solid choice. There are lots of good Divi tutorials on Youtube.
It's more expensive than Squarespace which is a main reason I chose Squarespace in the first place. I created a test site today to experiment with Wordpress and it seems that Wordpress has as much or more functionality than Squarespace, but much of it is hidden behind 3rd party addons, which may or may not be free. And you basically have to look up articles for "how to do x on Wordpress", whereas with Squarespace it's build-in and easier to accomplish.
So I think for people starting out, Wordpress is harder to use since you don't even know what it's capable of.
Divi is more expensive than Oxygen, so if I use something other than Gutenberg it will probably be Oxygen.
WordPress.com is horrendous and extremely expensive, and their practices are scummy. Divi is also fucking garbage. That other user has no idea what they are talking about.
If that's your hope for static generating, "contact form with backend" goes against those goals. It's an important requirement shifting the entire viability and weighing of platforms and hosters.
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