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I wrote my homepage[1] in about an hour (with bits and pieces of js borrowed). I used to have a wordpress blog styled exactly the same, but I never posted on it so it is gone now.

I by all means don't think this is 'professional', but I doubt what you want to make would need much more work than I have done.

These days there's resources for everything, webservers which have really good proxying if you want to code in a language other than php or manually writing html, pre-made 'article-writing software' in many languages made for the web.

Tools? All you'd need is notepad, or nano (or, your preferred text editor)! You shouldn't need to run compiled code for the web, in my opinion, as there's no noticeable speed differences.

Googling for specific things in a specific language will probably give you results, e.g. 'nodejs blog' will land you to Hexo[2], which really neat, customizable, and fast.

[1] https://avail.pw [2] https://hexo.io/

When you wrote WP at first I thought Windows Phone, which made me happy - someone thinking about it.

on-topic: $20/$30 is a tad too much for my taste. And even then I rather doing everything myself, so I know 100% how everything is done.

The 'Ubuntu' environment has been around on Windows Insider Preview builds for a while now ;)

Better structure, different (better/smaller) deps, and much different code I'll never do now that it works already. I'm thinking of re-doing the whole project once it can be called a `full` version, but that probably won't happen as 'hey, if it works...'.

Per day I get around 0.25€, on a forum with ~500 members

Maybe you might have more success with affiliate marketing.

Would be very interested in this. Might even use it over winver/dxdiag ;)

Would be interesting to read through the userscript - any intention on open sourcing/sharing?

We (3 of us) develop on prod constantly. It does break a lot and the ~200 users we have kept complaining at first, but they've gotten used to it.

Renaming an user account on Windows systems isn't that complicated.

In theory. In practice, probably not. Windows has a habit of leaving little droplets of history all over that come back to bite.

Best to just wipe and reinstall.

Windows itself? Not really. Third party applications that hard code the path? More likely.

Windows itself leaves the c:\users\<username> path as it was first set, even if you rename the username.

I can confirm this. Recently renamed a user as I handed off an old PC to my wife. The old directory is still there but now all the files within it are inaccessible. Caused a lot of issues!

This shouldn't happen. The directory is still there, but it also should still be your profile directory. Changing a user name shouldn't change the SID and make your files inaccessible.

Lots of things with Windows should not happen, but they do. It shouldn't forget that I have bluetooth hardware installed, but it does. Windows just (in)conveniently forgets things. Or, conversely, remembers things that should be forgotten.

A lot of weird things happen when you violate Windows' core assumptions about the file system.

Not really. Renaming the username-part of the user's home folder has all kinds of data loss potential (apps not being able to find documents, documents linked to each other etc.). Therefore Windows takes the perfectly appropriate approach of leaving the user's files named as they were. Permissions etc. all remain unchanged and allow the same renamed user access. Just the folder on disk shows the old name.

I just renamed my user, too, but I kept the same directory. No issues for the past month or so.

It's a rare operation that most people don't ever do, and so receives little testing. Certainly little testing in a real, deployed, messy system, and not just a pristine, vanilla QA image in some Microsoft Windows test bed.