Make a wish

short answer: maybe because we're actually having fun!

long answer: we started doing this decades ago at this point, like 2007. and sure, ai does generate amazing code and can save a lot of time. but there's almost no learning effect if you just copy and paste something you don't understand.

some people (thankfully) still prefer figuring things out themselves. not just pasting code from ai without knowing how it works. because if you don't understand it, you also can't really fix things when they break! and believe me, things do break all the time when you're actually coding something.

and I know, hard to believe, but there are still people who intentionally avoid AI and prefer using things made by other people, partly because it's also a way of supporting and appreciating someone else's work.

hope this doesn't come across as rude, but "why bother" is kind of a rude question too, don't you think? 🫶🏻

also, while ai is great for finding bugs or optimizing stuff, it's really easy to get used to it. and then you slowly start unlearning things. writing and coding manually, the "old way", kind of protects you from that. 😅

and let's be honest, ai probably won't stay free forever. getting fully dependent on something you don't actually understand, especially if you can't code without it, sounds like a bad idea, doesn't it?

tatsächlich hab ich das ausschließlich für fey gecodet und an die bedürfnisse angepasst. vielleicht kommt mal was in der richtung, irgendwann mal. no promises!

to be honest, blogify was written as a really simple tool to add blog posts to your page for people who used to edit their index.html by hand. I have no intention of making it more advanced, sorry. <3 xoxo

hi matt! there actually already is a starter theme generator for wordpress ☺️ it is called 'underscores', and it creates a blank theme with all the required core files: underscores.me

a more recent starter theme by automattic is 'blockbase', which supports the latest block-based features in wordpress. personally, i am not a big fan of those. i still prefer the old-school approach like underscores.

maybe i will make my own templates in the future, but i don't personally work with wordpress anymore (and neither does danny). wordpress has shifted heavily toward block-based editing and gutenberg, which i am just not really into. 🥲

oh, actually we're not using status.cafe here 🥹 we built our own cms that powers the whole site (and all our side projects, like the tutorials), and the status posts and reactions are just one small part of it. would you be interested in a self-hosted php script for that? it'd only work if your host supports php (so no luck on e.g. neocities, sadly). not sure when i'd have time to put it together though, life's a bit hectic atm. 🫠