Does anyone use Tumblr to store their HTML/CSS codes?

Posted by Sad-Artist7044@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Hello!

I recently started The Odin Project and I just got to the part where you make a site using HTML and CSS. I have some experience with it and I've made a few themes on Tumblr so I'm just the most comfortable with that interface. Does anyone else use Tumblr as basically a backup github/place to work on their codes that only involve HTML and CSS? Once a code is complete I'd also back it up on github, obviously, but just while I'm working on it and as a place to showcase my themes.

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chervilious@reddit

Once a code is complete I'd also back it up on github,

A github isn't just a place for you to store code. Git allows you to revert changes, collaborate, etc.

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Sad-Artist7044@reddit (OP)

Oh, I'm for sure backing it up! I just really like the live updates and I've been using it for so long it just feels..... comfortable, I guess?

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chervilious@reddit

What's the different between using live server on your editor setup?

someone did say it's the setup. But set up live server on a HTML and CSS project isn't really that hard, on vscode you just need to install an extension.

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exclusive_warmth@reddit

yeah but for just playing around with themes tumblr interface is actually not bad since you see changes live

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chervilious@reddit

I don't know anything about tumblr, but what's the different between that and using live server on your code editor?

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owp4dd1w5a0a@reddit

Probably setup complexity.

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Remote_Ambassador211@reddit

And deploy! Sites like railway deploy your website right from github.

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cgoldberg@reddit

GitHub Pages is nice

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Sad-Artist7044@reddit (OP)

Does that have reliable live updates? I searched it and a bunch of stuff about it not working to update the way it looks came up, but it's not like someone is gonna ask if it works well so it's hard to tell if the problem is really that much of a problem.

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j01101111sh@reddit

They're probably running into issues with cached css or js files. It's not a gh pages thing, it would affect any host.

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cgoldberg@reddit

I don't know what you are asking. It's just static content hosting that is served from a GitHub repo

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insertAlias@reddit

Once a code is complete I'd also back it up on github, obviously

This is a misunderstanding of what Github is and how it should be used. It's not a portfolio where you only put finished work. It's source control, first and foremost. If you don't want people seeing an unfinished repo, create it as private. But also understand that literally nobody is just going through random beginner repos looking for things to judge. I have like 90 projects on GH, and like 50 of them are half-cooked garbage.

Commit often. Branch when making new features. Push regularly, and use PRs for your own sake of learning and sanity. You'll understand GH a lot better that way.

You can use GH Pages; it can even be automated such that when you push to main, that gets served from the pages site.

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miniature_disasters@reddit

As a long time tumblr user, I would recommend you to use GitHub and GitHub pages. You can save all your code there and see all the older versions of your work. I would maybe use tumblr as a blog to write about what you're learning and link to you repository on GitHub.

I usually work in my code directly on GitHub, without needing to save the files on my computer, as I'm not always working on my personal computer.

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