Goodbye WordPress, hello a folder of markdown files
Eight years. That’s how long I ran my personal site on WordPress. I didn’t hate it. WordPress is fine — genuinely good for a lot of use cases. But somewhere along the way, maintaining it started to feel like overhead I didn’t want. Plugin updates. PHP upgrades. The occasional “your site was hacked” email. What I actually wanted was a blog that felt like a folder of text files, because that’s what it is. ...