Tag: pressbin

Leaving Medium — owning your URL without giving up git-push

Platforms optimize for reach. Self-hosted Pressbin optimizes for owning your posts, your domain, and your database file.

From Jekyll to Pressbin — what changes when you drop the build

Jekyll taught a generation that GitHub is a CMS. Pressbin keeps that lesson and removes Ruby, Liquid builds, and _site artifacts.

Hugo is still brilliant — here's when I reach for Pressbin instead

Static generators win on CDN economics. Pressbin wins when you want server-side search and git-push without rebuilding the world on every typo.

Ghost vs Pressbin — product UI vs Git as CMS

Ghost is a polished publisher product. Pressbin is for teams who want Markdown in Git and no Node stack on the server.

Why I stopped reaching for WordPress on small blogs

WordPress is a platform. For a developer blog, I wanted an engine — one binary, Git-backed posts, and no plugin treadmill.