alt Hacker NewsI restarted my own blog in exactly the same way after getting frustrated with WordPress. The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.
Over the years I have added to my solution with custom markdown, tagging, rss, and most lately exif-stripping. Technically the source is available [0] but I can’t see anyone else using it.
>The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.
Yes! I find the easiest way for me is to just open a new tab in my code editor and typing.
Exif is a real gotcha. I'm planning to compress images anyway, so this could be done in the same step.