Adding a Guestbook to Your Jamstack Site (Yes, Seriously)

Don’t do this. I’m serious. Or do it, I certainly don’t listen to reason when it comes to building demos. I’ve been in web development for a very, very long time, and I’ve seen many trends come and go. Guestbooks were a way for folks to leave a comment on your site as a whole. I haven’t seen one in ages, but some still linger. In fact, Ana Rodrigues has an absolutely lovely guestbook driven by Webmentions. And if you really want to, you can still download a Perl CGI guestbook over at Matt’s Script Archive. I haven’t written Perl in decades, but I absolutely loved it back in the 90s. That being said, I had a free hour yesterday, was bored, and decided,... more →
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