A blog that gets out of the way
We wanted to write posts the way we think - in plain text, with headings, lists, and links - without standing up a CMS or a JavaScript build step. So this blog is just Markdown files parsed on the server with PHP.
Each post is one .md file in the blog/ folder. The bit at the top between the --- lines is the frontmatter: title, description, date, and so on. Everything below it is the post.
What Markdown gives us
- Headings like the one above
- Bold and italic text
- Links back to the site
- Lists, naturally
Restraint is a design constraint. The fewer moving parts, the fewer things to break.
A little code, too
fun greet(name: String): String {
return "Hello, $name"
}That is the whole idea. Write Markdown, save the file, and the post is live - no compile, no deploy pipeline beyond what the site already does.
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