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Colophon: a blog we own, top to bottom

No framework, no CMS, no newsletter platform. Just files and a few hundred lines.

by Jon Woodall

This site is a deliberate exercise in owning the whole stack. There is no web framework here, no content management system, and no third-party newsletter service. Posts are Markdown files in a git repository. A small Python script turns them into static HTML. That's the entire machine.

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The case for boring, static websites

A good reminder that a pile of static HTML files outlives every framework you could have reached for. No build server to babysit, no runtime to patch, no vendor to migrate off of in three years. Boring is a feature.

by Jon Woodall via a reader
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Own your tools or they own you

The whole essay is worth reading, but the core is one line: the tools you build bend to you; the tools you rent bend you to them. For anything small enough to build, that trade is almost always worth making.

by Jon Woodall
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