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They are essentially choosing the philosophy of optimizing for speed in every dimension.

The tools selected are faster than their more mainstream counterparts — but since it's a static site anyway, the pre-build side of the toolchain is more about "nice dev ux" and the post-build is more about "really fast to load and read".

Much faster still would be to not set up a container for what appears to be a one-off run of some SSG-generation library on some Markdown files.

I love Caddy and it's fast enough. But it's not the fastest. nginx is generally faster for example.

So I can't agree.

Author (not OP) here. In hindsight, I wish I’d explained “the why” mostly to save so many folks in this thread from making lots of assumptions. The third paragraph in this comment touches on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993875

We both speak the same language. I can get to grips with "front load" but what does:

"helps contextual the blog" mean?

It appears, for the verb, you meant: "frobnicate".

It's supposed to be 'contextualize': putting it in context, ~explain.

Yep, that's what I meant. My fingers don't always type the right word - thanks!