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Discussion on: What would you choose if you'd go against the trends?

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For my blog, I first went with GravCMS+UIKit. But it was kinda slow, and while the backend is much less a mess than e.g. Wordpress, it still felt somewhat clunky.

On the second run, I wrote everything by hand, except using htmx.org, which is much faster overall.

Adding posts now involves: Writing it in HTML (thanks to emmet it is not that much worse than markdown, actually), update 2 nav sections manually, create a thumb for each image, and pick one image per post, and create 3 variations in different sizes for it. But that's ok either, I have some ffmpeg for that.
Wouldn't recomment that for frequent posting, but in my case it's ok.