Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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I would recommend learning basic HTML CSS and making a website without external tools. This way the maintenance cost is 0 as your website will likely work forever.
Write all your HTML first then your CSS, it will be easier this way. Use vanilla JS if you need to but avoid external libraries , same for php.
Static site generators. Jekyll, Hugo, etc. Pick a template, write in markdown.
Put it in an AWS S3 bucket and enable static website hosting. Use Claude to spit out a full site. Warning: The site will look like 1 million other Claude generated sites.
don't bother learning html and css, just use claude code and it'll get you a nice basic website, unless you're looking to code as a hobby then go for your life
Honestly AI isn't bad at basic websites, webapps, little simulations even.
I know it won't be popular because people would rather downvote and claim AI is useless but it genuinely is amazing and claude is clearly the best by far
if you want to self host your own you can do that for example with /c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
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