Show HN: Hypertextual – a blogging framework to fight chickenshit minimalism

Never really understood why site generation needed custom tools, on demand page generation, databases, etc for what amounts to the web equivalent of a mail merge.

However, I'm very new to web development, and I went with what I'm learning.

Also, I wanted to build something that other people like me (who aren't necessarily web people) could use without having to think about it too hard. Heroku's deployment strategy (i.e., "git push heroku master") makes the whole thing dead simple.

I guess I didn't communicate very well that the site could be viewed live at that URL.

If someone else uses it, I'll be excited! If nobody else ever uses it, I'll still be excited - because as simple as it is, it's something that I can use, and enjoy using.

And to be fair - Markdown is pretty damn expressive... you just have to roll your own expression if you want anything beyond the basics. But again - it's about only using what I need, and about getting to use what I've built.

I read that talk by Maciej Ceglowski and it made me really want to build something of my own, so I did.

There are probably other solutions out there that do the same thing, but I really wanted to roll up my sleeves, write something, and fling it out into the ether to see what happened.