I have written a script in Python. This generates all html/css/images from a bunch of markdown files, and I host them on Heroku (which gives quite nice deployment procedure with minimal effort, and costs almost nothing - $7 per month).

And due to my strange requirements, I couldn't use the widely used static page generators. I have a blog about programming, and sometimes I have some source files, data files, some programs - all used in a blog post, which is stored in a markdown file. I wanted to keep them in the same directory as the text file. I also wanted to publish only part of those files. To get there I implemented a couple of things like custom markdown tags, which are converted to proper links to the image files etc. The result is quite nice, I can shuffle the old blog posts to other directories, and the generated output is still the same. I can keep the images, data files next to the blog post, and they don't interfere with each other.

Previously I had all my blogs on Wordpress. That was terrible. Endless upgrades which sometimes destroyed my blog design. Security holes. Endless tries of hacking the page, or guessing the password.

Now I have no password, no hacking attempts (there is nothing to hack, and if someone does - I will redeploy the files from my computer). All posts are in git versioned files. I can edit them locally in Vim. Deployment is as simple as `git push heroku master`.