I think the lesson is that stuff that just works is awesome, and it would be really cool if we had a platform with the expressiveness of raw HTML, with the ease

I think the lesson is that stuff that just works is awesome, and it would be really cool if we had a platform with the expressiveness of raw HTML, with the ease of use of Tumblr, and the portability and backup-ability of GitHub. Most of the cool things about personal sites can be replicated without the needless toil of actually messing with hosting yourself. Even Markdown isn't enough. I want a site where we can view posts on a calendar, write things in full BBCode, view by tags or heirarchy (Or a hybrid, like #stories.romance), clone your stuff as a git repo and edit locally, etc.