Website configuration

  • Easy deployment
  • Backups, in transferable format, of post content
  • Total ownership of content
  • Post by email
  • Post by web
  • Formatting for short posts, versus long form writing
  • Easy configuration/additions without scp (e.g. git push/commit hooks)
  • Low server overhead—it's a damned static site 99% of the time; it shouldn't require an m4.large
  • Article permalinks regardless of underlying categorization/content changes
  • Presentation of heterogeneous data
  • A way to share more than just text (e.g. images)
  • Maintain pagination without incurring excessive backend load
  • Portfolio elements—running/presenting arbitrary code, separate from blog content/formatting (e.g. cssris)
  • Extensibility
  • Easy import/export