Funny, I looked at the same tech stacks and came to exactly the opposite conclusion. I want to be able to write on my computer, in Markdown, using the tools I

Funny, I looked at the same tech stacks and came to exactly the opposite conclusion. I want to be able to write on my computer, in Markdown, using the tools I want (I blog in either Emacs or iA Writer, depending on whether I want to be in "programmer brain" or "writer brain"). I guess I spend enough time in Markdown that I don't need to preview that much, so I don't find the switch to the browser and reload the page cycle especially frequent or onerous. Definitely less onerous than the click preview and wait for it to load cycle I had on WordPress. Having to log into a browser and type into a crappy little rich text editor would lower my (already extremely low) blogging frequency to non-existence. But hey, that's my choice -- you should use whatever works for you. I'm just glad that we have the plethora of options.