Well my first project was going to be a pretty basic blog with only an admin backend for me to add new posts but I get what you're saying.

Just additional piece of mind, really.

If it's a personal site with no real way for visitors to interact with it beyond reading it's content, I'd say it's not that big of a deal. But if it's a website that allows users to sign in, stores data about them, etc open source is a good idea. As /u/txt said, it's best to know so it can be fixed and that proper procedures can be done.

But if it's just your personal site, where you publish some posts and that's it... I don't think it's a big deal to not publish the code personally because it's just your site and it'll only impact you if something is done wrong.

That makes sense. I'm just shy I guess. I'm still going through the 'learn python the hard way' and haven't written much but I just figured i'd be posting my code to public forums like this and on reddit for people smarter than me to pick apart to help me learn as I go along. I never really figured out how to use github and stuff. I'm really new to all this obviously haha.

Security via obscurity is a terrible idea. If your code is bad, its better to know before your site gets traction.

It a) uses more resources, b) help fingerprinting, c) may disqualify your browser/os easier and faster because of bleeding-edge browser APIs that you mostly don't need.

What's this gotta do with Javascript?

I use NoScript, thank you. I can browse github without js most of the time.

I really like Go for its simplicity, ecosystem, and ability to develop applications and libraries in rapid, understandable ways. In particular it is easy to integrate Go applications and libraries with anonymous networks thanks to libraries like goSam, sam3, and bine. Obviously in the browser JavaScript is the only way to fly. Brief love affairs with various JS transpires taught me I should just get better at JavaScript.

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There's a lot of ways to start doing this. I started out with Python, and I was able to pick up on Flask and Django pretty quickly. Both are fantastic libraries to create websites with, but I think learning Node.js and express is also another great combo for making websites. (This applies to Clearnet sites, not 100% sure about Tor based websites)

depends are you designing are a tor based website or clearnet?