Believe it or not, I do web development and design. I've recently been getting into more niche
internet circles, and the more I look, the more I realize the best sites are way simpler than what
the "industry" expects.
For example, vaeriel.net is built on top of 11ty. Every
page is
an index.html file under its
own directory. Sure, I bring in fonts, have a build step, and use a templating language, but the end
result is still just a bunch of static HTML files and some CSS; the homepage ships
702.52 KiB total, and most of that is just woff2 fonts (a subset of Iosevka). A
month ago, I probably would have used React, despite it being totally overkill for a site like this.