Web brutalism
In a digital era where everything web must be flashy, interactive and addictive, pages as simple and plain as these you're reading could seem strange. However, it's exactly as a reaction against the moern web that I've decided to adopt a kinda "brutalist" style for this digital garden. Contents should be more important than the boxes they're into. Form matters less than function.
My dislike for "fake simplicity" led me to the simplest solution: apache, html, a simple css file and that's all. Html pages were composed directly in a text editor and then uploaded online using good old ftp. Nothing fancy, nothing flashy. It was a good idea but somewhat impractical, leading me to write less often than I wanted. So I got back here, as a good tradeoff.
A tradeoff nonetheless, mind you. Markdown is another example of simplicity by abstraction. Being able to describe a page without html codes is nice, but it still needs a layer of translation to html. Try to install even a flat CMS that supports Markdown and you could lose yourself in modules, php code, dependencies. The "simple solution" isn't simple at all. That said, of course any flat CMS with Markdown is infinitely better than a gigantic wordpress installation just for a simple text blog.
The simpler logical alternative is, probably, Gemini. But managing a Gemini capsule is a different thing from managing some web pages. And the geminiverse is for sure entertaining but still not that popular. However, these pages can be esaily converted to Gemini contents.