[nailer]

CMSs really are painful. I've spent more time making Ghost work on domain.com/blog (despite content marketing being one of the main reasons to drive people to your website, Ghost doesn't support this) than I have to write a CMS before.

Looks like it uses Postgres: https://github.com/michael/editable-website

[_mql]

Yeah it's essentially bare-metal web development. Thanks to Svelte and ProseMirror, it's just much easier to enable functionality, which would otherwise only be possible through a CMS. It uses Postgres, but you could use any other database as well.