I've done exactly what you describe and I highly recommend it. My personal website is served by a couple hundred lines of Rust. There is no database or ORM --

I've done exactly what you describe and I highly recommend it. My personal website is served by a couple hundred lines of Rust. There is no database or ORM -- I just defined structs like `BlogPost` or whatever and stuck a `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]` on it and use the `serde` library to JSONify it, store it flat in a hard-coded folder. I even wrote my own dead-simple Markdown-ish flavor that is tailored exactly to my writing style. I use a lot of em-dashes, for example, so it translates `--` into `—` (rather, &mdash). Or, since a lot of my posts link to other posts, I can do `[post title_of_other_post]` and it'll generate the appropriate link. Whenever I want a new feature while writing a particular blog post, e.g. pretty inline SVG, I just go add it and then keep writing.