Hi! Thank you so much. If you don’t mind, do you have any recommendations for someone setting up Bootstrap as a total beginner with no dev/design experience? I looked at a couple webpages about how to add Bootstrap to a WordPress theme, but most of the methods look like they’re way above my technical skill level. And I can’t find any Bootstrap-using WordPress themes that are available without a business plan (it looks like there used to be a few but they’re not around anymore and/or got moved to business only.)

Would one of these plugins work for me, do you think? https://wordpress.com/plugins/block-editor-bootstrap-blocks/ https://wordpress.com/plugins/wp-bootstrap-blocks/

Divi seems nice, but it’s too expensive for what I’m looking for. I think my former employer was using that with their WordPress site, which I added blog posts to a couple times (this was several years ago). But it looks I’d need to upgrade to a WordPress business plan and THEN pay $89/year on top of that if I wanted to use WordPress + Divi myself.

honestly, looking up flex box makes me think that learning CSS might be less frustrating than dealing with this crappy WordPress interface… I think I could learn this https://www.w3schools.com/csS/css3_flexbox.asp

But I’d have to somehow host my site, though, right? I’ve never had to do that before, I just let WordPress handle that. I don’t think I’m ready to set up my own server… I have zero experience with anything like that and also only have one working computer right now. (My other, older laptop needs more expensive/extensive repair work than I thought.) Is there a hosting service you’d recommend? Or am I back to needing a “bloated CMS” that offers hosting?

What issue do people have with JavaScript? (Should I be against JavaScript?)

Mostly just that I registered my domain through there. (It’s one I bought in the past but allowed to lapse, and then I was pleasantly surprised to find it was still available so I bought it again… in retrospect, I probably should have waited to play around with current-day WordPress some more before buying through there.) But I can still move my site with its domain name off WordPress, right?

It will definitely have a blog. Probably some other projects eventually (TBD which ones, but I’ll at least want to display photos nicely). I also want to make the site colorful if possible, maybe a little offbeat-looking.

I kind of associate hot chocolate with kids and winter, so maybe that’s where the reaction came from? That said, I would and have quite happily drunk hot chocolate in public as an adult, regardless of season.

If you’re really worried that someone will look down on you and you don’t like coffee, maybe order a tea or a refresher. Chai lattes and matcha lattes also don’t have coffee. Or just get food and a water.

As for your title question, It has literally never occurred to me to think anything about someone not drinking coffee or expressing a dislike for coffee.

If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

…as an adult, you realize that much of the time, no one is going to come save you.

bonus: sometimes you put non-garbage in and it’s STILL garbage out! Because the thing you’re putting it into is itself garbage. Exhibit A: trying to do good work for a company with bad procedures.