Switching to Static Sites Made in Markdown
A brief note on the Wintersmith + Surge setup for static blog hosting.
Wintersmith is some kind of NodeJS magic that turns markdown files into blog posts.
I host everything on Surge after I build the static content. It’s pretty damn spiffy.
The workflow is simple:
- Write posts in Markdown
- Build with Wintersmith
- Deploy to Surge CDN
No databases, no PHP, no Wordpress security patches. Just static files served fast from a CDN.