I’m not surprised. The future always seemed dim because so many basic features were lacking.

From my experience if you’re following web standards you’re already ahead of most developers and websites. Anytime people don’t follow the standards that’s when it gets really messy.

Beyond that tools like WebAIM and Lighthouse help a ton.

I have an iOS app and I stick with the usual semantic version scheme. It’s easy for me to use. If I jump to a new major version it’s easy to explain to users.

I went from working on one side project to now 3 or 4. Not a ton but like you wanted to figure out hosting. This is my hosting setup that has worked well for me.

- All project frontends are built on SvelteKit. This could Next, Remix or any framework really. This allows me to serve it on Cloudflare Pages for free. - All the app logic for my projects use one REST API service. This is hosted on Digital Ocean. - The DB for my API is also hosted on a Managed MySQL service from Digital Ocean. I could setup my own droplet but I wanted one less thing to manage. I'm looking to move this to Cloudflare D1 once it's available for public usage. - All my images are hosted on Cloudflare R2. This is great because it connects to Cloudflare's DNS and makes it a simple step to add a custom domain.

It’s simple. The boxes seem too nice to throw away. It’s like when someone uses really nice wrapping paper. You unwrap it carefully to preserve it.

First time commenter but I wanted to say I really, really enjoyed the podcast. I loved hearing the thought process of what programming language, frameworks and tools were used and how helpful they became to the person you interviewed.