[GrinningFool]

2. I need to look into self-hosted comments; but I was hoping to make the blog portion of the site static to keep it simpler. Project pages may have demos/etc that pull in JS libraries. But you raise a good point in 1 that also applies to 2 - given that I'm probably going to be reaching only a handful of people initially (and perhaps longer), worrying about bandwidth is a premature optimization.

3. I've just about talking myself into going with log-based analytics here. I find ga's omnipresence too worrisome to contribute to it, even with consent.

Thanks for that link, that's essentially the policy in my head before I started thinking about things like comment support. It's way better written than I would've come up with.

[mmatants]

Re #2: - patio11 recently fired off a few tweets about doing away with comments on his blog: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/813895918692876289

Can't say I would disagree. A lot of folks these days just seem to append an HN/Reddit link to posts that get discussions on those sites. There's the blog as an expression of author's personality, and then there's the discussion space as an area with a life of its own.