Let's say I want to set up a website that:

[nmott@infosec.exchange]

Let's say I want to set up a website that:

1. Can have Iocaine[0] parked in front of it
2. Doesn't require any kind of analytics
3. Will be expected to serve HTML and CSS over both HTTP and HTTPS
4. Relies on as little slop[1] as possible
5. Allows me to post via "not a web interface" (read: CLI, TUI, Emacs, etc.)
6. Isn't costly

What should I be doing? Signing up for Hetzner, slapping OpenBSD on a VM, and calling it a day? Signing up for a managed blogging service so I don't have to cosplay as a sysadmin and can just write? Let me know what's up.

Also, I originally wanted to say "doesn't rely on slop" but, if you peruse the open-slopware project, its issues, and its pull requests, it's clear that simply isn't possible. Good luck finding a stack that doesn't use LLVM, curl, and/or one of Python or Ruby anywhere!

I have considered Mataroa, but it's also slop[2], and it seems both Hugo and Zola are fine with slop as well. (See 1.)

[0] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
[1] https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
[2] https://github.com/mataroablog/mataroa/blob/main/AGENTS.md