This is a live example of a site built with crofty: you write Markdown, crofty renders a plain static site and deploys it to a domain and accounts you control. No platform in the middle, nothing to lock you in — and you can walk away to plain Hugo whenever you like.
The posts below are just Markdown files in a folder. That’s the whole site.
Writing
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Music notation with abc.js
Engraved sheet music and in-browser playback from an ABC code block.
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What Markdown looks like here
A short tour of the formatting crofty renders from plain Markdown.
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Code, highlighted
Fenced code blocks across languages, with syntax colours that follow light and dark mode.
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Owning your words
Why this little blog is just plain files on a domain I control.
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On keeping a feed
A feed is a quiet promise that anyone can follow this site without an account.
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Diagrams with Mermaid
Flowcharts, sequences, and more — drawn from a fenced code block.