How to make a website in under a day?

10-08-2024

  1. Clock in at your day job1 that you hate.
  2. Do your tasks. Cap it off if you feel like you've worked for four hours since that's your bandwidth anyways.
  3. Scroll on twitter (X if you're a man) during your boring hours until something catches your eye.
  4. Realize how everyone's quote retweet on this tweet could all be congested like those 2010 blogs about "girly things."
  5. Make yourself think if you can make a website from a pre-built template like this one. and just customize it.
  6. Almost forget to have brunch. You already woke up late, at least forgive yourself by eating.
  7. Take a shower after. A cold one. Realize how the water makes you feel kind of glad you're alive for a bit, that you forget that you don't work for as much as those YouTubers2 who probably commit fraud in a way and would instantly get canceled because of their edgy Discord messages.
  8. Realize how weird you sound in your head and you spaced out for three minutes while scrubbing yourself. Do the rest of your bath routine after.
  9. Get out of the shower. Realize you still have Slack displayed on your desktop. Close it and do the website. It's not like you have nothing to lose.
  10. Watch3 the video and see how to use the code then be surprised that 90% of it contains JavaScript.
  11. Cry for a little bit. Not because you don't know jack shit about JavaScript but because you forgot you're still employed and have shit to do.
  12. Forget bullet point #2. Maybe just work on it for an hour.
  13. Okay go back to the website. Just at least try to understand the JavaScript.
  14. Customize the code. Change the font. Retain only one text box. Add a footer and a header.
  15. Make the image generator have a watermark since it's "that simple4"
  16. Okay, so the watermark thing didn't work. Keep adjusting the values.
  17. Realize you have unread Slack messages. Adjust the values.
  18. Reply to your project manager's5 messages saying she didn't edit your work correctly because you sent her the wrong dataset. Adjust the values.
  19. Get another message from your proejct manager echoing that the data was wrong on her end. Adjust the values and use a different unit.
  20. Reply to them saying that you will take note of these in the future but defend that you didn't want to bring it up because they'll keep insisting. Adjust the values.6
  21. Get a passive-aggressive reply from them as you delete yours. Fuck the values.
  22. Cry for a bit again.
  23. Realize that there isn't an easy path to anything and that being a whiny piece of shit won't help. Think that maybe you are the problem. Realize that maybe, you're always in the wrong; that you're too old to even fuck up and not learn.
  24. Remember all the times you acted like a kid just because of a minor inconvenience in your life.
  25. But then intellectualize the situation that maybe this time, you're only doing what you think is always right. Change the values to percentages.
  26. Get the website working. Don't reply to your project manager. You'll clock in the morning
  27. Realize that I'm still capable of doing things right.
  28. Post the website on Twitter.
  29. Take pride in what you did and realize you can always do better for youself the next day.
  30. Realize that you are better off when you learn in your own way; that you fuck around and find out.
  31. Realize that you should probably surround yourself around people that know your best interest.
  32. Look up web development jobs on LinkedIn.
  33. Close that tab. Take a break and soak all of that pride in. You'll resign from your day job anyways.

Author's notes
1come on everyone hates their jobs but it's not like i hate the company. besides,i'm still fun to work with.
2no one in particular. any resemblance to anyone is absolutely coincidental.
3skim; skip some aprts and ignore any explanation.
4it was not.
5bless their heart but my god pls stop