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love this piece on the value of PHP as-was, and the way that tools can enable a certain type of thing to be made, just by making it easy devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic
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for a certain scale of thing, it's really hard to beat intermingled PHP & HTML, some database calls sprinkled here and there. CBDQ is built that way, and is probably on the upper end of what's sensible to build that way
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but the web's tooling is now built for people who just build websites, not people who do many other things but sometimes want to contribute to the web
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anyway, back to writing the authentication code for my own attempt at another 3rd party service for sharing content online