I keep coming back to the same realization: every CMS I've used has died, and every Markdown file I wrote a decade ago still opens in any text editor. So this site is built on three rules.

Three rules#

1. Plain Markdown is the source of truth. No database, no admin panel.
2. Links are first-class. A note that connects to two other notes is more valuable than three isolated notes.¹
3. Publishing is just git push. If it's harder than that, I'll stop writing.

What this means in practice#

# new essay
$ touch content/posts/some-thought.md
$ vim content/posts/some-thought.md
$ git commit -am "essay: some thought"
$ git push

That's the whole pipeline. The site rebuilds itself.

What I gave up#

Software is a means to an end, not a hobby. — someone, probably

I gave up infinite themes, plugins, comment systems, analytics dashboards, and the fantasy that any of those things would make the writing better. They wouldn't have. They never do.

中英混排也要看起来舒服 — serif body 字体在中英文混排时表现不算完美，但够好。代码块、引用、脚注都按学术排版的习惯处理。

What's next#

• More notes than essays. Notes are cheap; essays are expensive.
• Backlinks visible at the bottom of every page.
• A graph view on the homepage, but nowhere else — graphs are seductive and mostly useless.

That's it. The rest is just writing.

Footnotes#

1. This is the core insight behind digital gardens and the reason backlinks matter more than chronology. ↩

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