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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The exit is a feature
A site you can leave at any moment is a site worth staying on.
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Images and figures
How pictures, captions, and inline images render from plain Markdown.
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A folder of text
Everything I publish here begins as a plain folder of Markdown files on my own disk.
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Embedding video
Self-hosted video and platform embeds, both from Markdown.
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Writing in the open
Publishing a half-formed thought in public changes how carefully I think it through.
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External snippets that paste in
Gists, CodePen, social embeds, and iframes — the copy-paste HTML the web hands you.