I want this chopped down to a minimum. The less backend the better. I’m still thinking node.js but I do have a bit of experience in PHP. Of course, there’s a plethora of languages and hosting options, so I should probably focus on choosing one and running with it. Seeing as how any blogging I do averages less than two total page views a day, it doesn’t need to be running particularly tight.
The editor should be a bare HTML editor. Even tables should only be part of an add-in.
Speaking of add-ins. Start with the bare HTML, but build a simple plug-in wrapper. Video might be fun, but more dirty data visualization kinda things. Graphs and shit. I could do something on tableau, and that’s career wise a good choice, but I like rolling my own. All the things.
No database? Each upload gets a word list in lieu of a title. Similarly, there is a text document for each word. Each word then gets the magic number of the post. Deleting a post would require searching all the lists, but not so bad. Removing a post from a list would just be removing the one magic number. I never really understood why all posts need to be in a database for WordPress. It always seemed fairly over the top for a blog. For a multi-user blog, you might need it, but not for what I do in my opinion. Even if multiple users needed to be supported, it should only take a line at the top of each post file to list permissions or whatever. Definitely need to make the post files inaccessible. Like the raw that is. Especially if the backend is in there.
I think I should start putting something together local. Look at exporting from WordPress. Take my website (this) down and then redeploy. Maybe someday.
Have a quick and dirty media library. Files go in, but no further monkeying around.
Too tired. Can’t sleep.