A Statically Generated Blog

Why move?

I have been using WordPress since prehistory, and it served me well. I watched it grow from version 1, when it was still a simple and somewhat elegant blog system, to a huge and cluttered CMS as it is now. And now it is time we part ways.

I don’t like PHP

PHP is big. Too big. The interpreter takes more than a 100MB of memory when running, and my web-hosting virtual machine only has 500MB of it. I have to kill my web server in order to do an aptitude upgrade.

I cannot get rid of PHP completely though. I have two other (secret) blogs running on WordPress. I’m too lazy to transfer them to something light-weight, for now. And I have a PHP photo gallery, which I do plan to move later. But at least I’ll do what I can to minimize my PHP dependence.

It needs a HTML overhaul

The web has changed much since I created my old blog. Now HTML 5 is mostly usable, and CSS 3 is, errr…, somewhat usable. And they are very cool! The theme of my WordPress blog was written in HTML 5, but it is getting...