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I played the @austinkleon.bsky.social blackout game with Ian's post. WordPress among so many other things out there still uses PHP and the job security it provides, much like COBOL, should be protected at all costs. frfr tho be safe out there friends and patch your shit, thoughtfully and fast.

As someone who doesn't know much about web development other than like HTML, but willing to learn, what would be alternative languages that do the same thing as PHP? Is it kind of like Javascript?

Seriously great question! What's an example of would you like to build and how in the weeds do you want to get technically vs putting focus on other things like design, marketing, etc?

Just to get some experience, probably like a personal website with some interactive maps using Leaflet (JS mapping library)

Yeah, I can do stuff in an IDE and check it out, but I have no clue how to actually get that stuff onto a website, and probably would need to figure out how to connect PostGIS as well

Quite a rabbithole. It depends on what your priorities are. If I am prioritizing self-sovereignty, I often lean on static sites and Hugo does a lot to help with that (there are many other choices which are fine). If I am prioritizing liveness and/or p2p, I've been using Cloudflare Pages & Workers

Would you ever consider SpatiaLite so you don't need to use Postgres for GIS?