Reading up on GitHub Pages

Hacker News commenters generally agree that having a website is beneficial but argue that small businesses face significant practical obstacles, such as technical complexity and customer preference for social media platforms.

A call to reclaim the web through self-hosting with simple tools like Markdown and Raspberry Pi, but critics note the author's use of GitHub Pages undermines the message.

Simon Willison shares patterns for building useful single-file HTML tools with no build step, using LLMs to generate them.