Author: Sudheer Paturi - Page 3

Just use WordPress

Aug 12, 2025 3:29 pm

I’ve seen and used multiple platforms for building websites, but nothing came close to what WordPress offers.

Ownership, speed, flexibility, affordability – These are the things WordPress is good at.

New platforms like Framer are trying to make building websites simple and intuitive. As simple as it may seem, once you get through the first layer of just adding something to a page, it gets complex from there on. Framer is terrible to use on a low powered PC. Even building simple things like a menu is complicated on Framer.

Read this: Framer is not for beginners

Wix, SquareSpace, Framer, Webflow – all these tools have niche ~~use cases~~ users. People who are familiar with design tools like Figma might prefer using Framer. Wix and SquareSpace might be for people who don’t have any experience at all with building and maintaining a website. And certain kind of people might enjoy using Webflow.

These platforms are trying to make building a website simpler and more intuitive, but important things like maintaining the website, having ownership of it and posting whatever you want to post on it, that’s not offered by these platforms. You are limited with your choices and if any of these platforms decide to kick you off their server, you pretty much can’t do anything. WordPress on the other hand gives you ownership of your data and you can pretty much build whatever kind of site you want with WordPress. If you don’t like your hosting provider, you can switch to another one, or even host the entire site on your own server at your home.

I’m not saying that other platforms don’t have a place or are not worthy. If you want to build and maintain websites with ownership and flexibility, then WordPress is your best choice. I think it’s a good thing that we have other platforms and people working on newer solutions to simplify web development. But instead of chasing a shiny new object, remember that we have something solid that works really well.

AI voice mode is a game changer for people who love learning

Aug 12, 2025 9:31 am

Learning

There’s this scene from Dune movie where Paul is learning about Arrakis from a voice interface device. Ever since I saw that, I thought this is a cool way to learn.

Some people enjoy learning by reading books. Over the years I’ve found that I like learning through conversation. If someone is explaining something to me and asking questions back and forth, that felt like a more interactive way to learn.

I tried voice mode on Perplexity, Gemini and Grok. Perplexity has the best voice mode in my opinion. Less delay and clearer understanding of what I was asking.

Ever since AI tools became mainstream, I thought how this might change learning in the future and I think voice mode gives a version of that reality. People will still read books and write things, but this interactive way of learning will make it much easy to make sense of hard concepts without needing a personal tutor.