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> handwriting HTML is honestly not that hard.

> To write a new article, I... [c]opy-paste an older article to get the correct headers and navbar.

This is kind of hilarious. Any parts that you copy-paste from your previous projects into your new one are almost by definition too hard to do from scratch every time. You don't normally copy-paste e.g. single words or phrases like "do from scratch" into your writing because simply writing them is quicker and less fiddly than copy-pasting them from somewhere else, right? Yet I've worked with a dyslexic programmer once, and he copy-pasted tons of single words and phrases around from his earlier messages when chatting, and code snippets when coding — because for him, it was indeed easier than writing it correctly from scratch.

So back to main original point: handwriting HTML may not be that hard, but it's still hard enough for almost anyone to make them evade it whenever they can.



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