That way I don't have to rebuild the binary to update the website. This makes posting new articles take tens of seconds at most.
Aside — the architecture diagrams on https://xeiaso.net/blog/xesite-v4/ are not displaying in-browser for me, but do transfer correctly and are viewable on my computer. Maybe another mime issue, as the network inspector shows them being transferred with type "octet-stream"?
Repro by visiting the URL in latest Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.