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by muspimerol 2055 days ago
I definitely understand the desire to avoid a build-time tool. Especially Gatsby is way harder than it should be to get up and running. But for me, portability and data integrity trumps ease-of-publishing. If you want to move your blog to a new system in 5 years, you'll have to migrate a bunch of HTML. If you had the posts in markdown, chances are it would be a plug-and-play with the new system.

That's the reason I pointed out the <span> usage - your source of truth for your data is HTML, but in this case it's already getting mixed up with design-related oddities.

Not bashing your choice for your blog, I think it's reasonable. I just wonder if HTML is the most resilient way to store blog data. It's something I considered a lot when redoing my blog last year.