For my private blog for example, how to easily - as in drag and drop - insert images was a big thing that needed to work. So was reasonable code rendering.

I settled on the requirement "must be able to publish a Jupyter notebook" since that format roughly handles all those requirements while still being markdown mostly.

Then you have hosting: I want low touch so how whatever I pick interacts with that matters a lot too suddenly.

It still took some tweaking of Nikola[1] to get the process right for me, though not much.

Keep it simple doesn't help much if simple is actually just missing features that enable you to write efficiently and often (if that's what you want to do, I think I mostly just keep technical notes for myself).

[1] https://getnikola.com/

[0]: https://bearblog.dev/

I'm adding CSS, JavaScript, PHP, whatever, to my website because it's required to accomplish what I want. Not because my website must have all of that to be on par with what's whateverGPT is able to produce.

Building a CI pipeline which will automatically convert the linted markdown I'm pushing to a beautiful HTML blog post will surely be helpful to my technical growth.

But I know for sure that I won't have any motivation to do it without having written an actual post to share to the internet.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsusam.net%2Fwriting-...

It's a nice piece, but come on, ease off a bit.

I think a lot of these things become simpler as AI abstracts and commodifies the functionality and code required to develop and ship new functionality.

E.g. my blog uses Astro and I write react islands to help illustrate ideas that I I think are interesting - https://tom-dickson.com/blog/startup-viability-calculator/

I don't just dislike HTML, I dislike plaintext.