Well, most developers hate simplicity and simply love automation. From some point on automation usually becomes a process that's merely shifting complexity from

Well, most developers hate simplicity and simply love automation. From some point on automation usually becomes a process that's merely shifting complexity from a manual process to maintaining a growing software stack. I'd say for a simple web blog managing its entries by means of html files on the server is a valid solution. I am not sure how the author maintains an index of his blog entries this way, but updating an HTML index page manually does not seem like a huge effort to me.