Development

WordPress vs Hugo - Smackdown

The question today is: Which is a better platform in terms of: Speed Security Infrastructure Requirements Flexibility between WordPress and Hugo. what is wordpress? WordPress is, by volume, the leading web site creation engine in the world, powering an impressive 25% of all web sites. It’s based on PHP and MySQL. It serves pages dynamically. Upon each request, WordPress will get information from the database, and build the page using a combination of the data, the WordPress theme and plugins, and the WordPress engine itself.

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HTML vs Markdown - Smackdown

smackdown - html vs markdown Welcome to the first Raen Smackdown. The question today is: Which is better for web writing, HTML or Markdown? This is a controversial topic. I use both, and I like both. HTML is more versatile. For layouts and very rich pages, HTML is clearly the way to go. This topic, however, is about web writing. Content only, not layout. Let’s dive in. what is html?

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Microsoft's Coding AI

Microsoft has released a new artificial intelligence that can write code. automation hysteria Some people in the tech community have been reacting badly to this. I’m not even a bit concerned. In fact, think that if tools like this are perfected, it would be a great boon for developers. I’ll explain why below. a coding ai In essence, what this thing does is use a database of code snippets.

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