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I write my website and blog directly and entirely in HTML using BBEdit. For me, this is just much easier than any other method. I don't have to rely on any external system.

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Same here. Any text editor would work, of course, but I like BBEdit because of all the customization options. I’ve set up a bunch of shortcuts for frequently used tags; after some practice, I’ve become able to write prose in HTML almost as smoothly as in a word processor.

When I redid my ancient personal site—started in the late 1990s—to make it mobile-friendly a few years ago, BBEdit was also useful when making changes across dozens of files at once.

And does your blog have RSS or Atom feed? That's usually where it becomes a little tedious.

You just need a build system in place - generating RSS from your collection of html files isn't difficult.

Of course. It's not a blog without RSS!

Believe it or not, I also manually edit that in BBEdit.

I'm impressed, that's grit!

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