I do understand the sentiment (my own first thought upon reading the title was "This is something I would've imagined reading 20 years ago!") but apparently it'

I do understand the sentiment (my own first thought upon reading the title was "This is something I would've imagined reading 20 years ago!") but apparently it's kind of a fad nowadays to write your blog posts in Markdown, in a versioned repository, and use these tools to publish it to the server. FTP isn't nearly as cool today as it was when I published One of my first static sites circa 1997 (and that is truly a "static" site -- it hasn't been updated since 1998). Why do things the easy way? Everything old is new again, I guess.