Oh, at least here in Brazil, people still find it strange if you say you don't have an Instagram account. There's this idea of being a bit weird for not following this trend.

Brazil is an exception, though! Did you know we are the third country in the world with the largest number of Instagram users? [0]

Social media is very cultural here, so I'm not sure that we are representative of a larger trend in social media acceptance worldwide.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/578364/countries-with-mo...

Not surprised given the high cultural pressure for vanity there.

This one is a keeper.

He was just a kid, man.

Pinegrow is awesome, thanks for keeping it alive.

There's an app called Wappler that was developed by the same folks from DMXzone, which was quite well-known for its Dreamweaver add-ons at the time. It's the closer you will find of a direct successor.

Sometimes, meaning (which is heavily connected to the way people feel) is all that makes people survive. Ask Viktor Frankl.

Twitter/X had a hard time in Brazil recently and was temporarily banned. Meta is now feeling more intense pushback from Brazil's judiciary power.

Generate a static site from WordPress itself with the Simply Static plugin.

Publii is another one with static generation capabilities (https://getpublii.com)

> Or you could just use publii, an office suite of your choice, or type bad html and css by hand, then pass raw files on very cheap hosting providers, enjoying a clunky, and sometimes ugly, "website".

WordPress folks are working to enable static generation using WordPress Playground. It will work pretty much like Publii does today.

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/issues/707

It's a good starting point. Quite late at the game after strattic, cache plugins and offloading queries on sqlite, let's see when and how will they play out with unavoidable interaction parts like contact forms.