2026-06-28
The first thing written here, so let it stand as a statement of intent.
I wanted a site that owes nothing to anyone. No framework, no JavaScript, no analytics, no database — nothing to rot, nothing to phone home. Only text, turned into plain HTML, sitting still on a disk.
lowdown turns each .md file into an HTML fragment.ssg wraps the fragments in a shared shell and writes the finished
pages, plus a sitemap.xml.httpd serves the files. Nothing else runs.Publishing is three motions: write the file, run sh build.sh, rsync
the result to the server. No pipeline. Nothing to watch over.
A page here weighs a few kilobytes — less than a single image on
most of the modern web. It opens in Dillo or
links2 without complaint. Small enough to outlive the machine it sits
on.