A minimum viable blog is a single HTML file. Each entry can look something like this:
<h2>Date - Title</h2>
<p>the words</p>
Repeat forever.
If you want to let people subscribe, copy/paste that stuff over into an rss file. Someone to take a title and text, and prepend it to the html and add it to the rss file could probably be vibe coded in an afternoon. Maybe throw anchors on each post so they can be linked to.
ggm•8mo ago
I write inside wordpress. Its far too clunky, but its what my work (who pay for what I write) live inside.
I would happily write in vi or emacs, to publish via pandoc and a push to a base URL. And, as the author says, if you think you need the bells and whistles you may misunderstand what "minimum viable" means.
I did once write my own photo album HTML. What it did is treat "click" over an icon as "go to expanded image" and I pre-calculated entire farms of .thumb/ files.
Click on the image walked you to next image. there were simple back/next/up/out clickables above the images.
It worked fine. I never saw a need to do more, but did see a desire to have more beauty, and went with the obvious paths out.
The limit of my adornment was to gin up some wrappers around the thumbs which looked like 35mm strip film with sprocket holes, and use netpbm to compost this into the grid. It was pretty.