On keeping a quiet website

The best websites I know are the ones that have barely changed in years. They load fast, they never break, and their authors clearly stopped fussing with the machinery a long time ago.

Less to maintain

A static site has almost nothing that can rot. No database to migrate, no plugins to update, no framework that needs a rewrite every spring. You write, you commit, it publishes.

• The files are Markdown you can read.
• The history is every version, restorable in a click.
• The output is plain HTML that works with JavaScript switched off.

It turns out boring is a feature. It's the thing that lets a site quietly keep working while you go and do something else.