A Developer's Journey from Static Pages to Building a Custom Blogging Platform

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A developer who enjoys sharing notes and stories grew frustrated with commercial blogging platforms after one switched to a paid model, and chose to build their own instead. Their first version was simply static pages served by nginx on a Linux machine. While on vacation with only an Android phone, they created a CGI-based blog by writing shell scripts over SSH that rendered Markdown to HTML. That setup worked for about a year but was slow on a Raspberry Pi and required SSH access for every new post. This led to uBlog, a lightweight Java CGI server designed for a minimal memory and CPU footprint, which began as a read-only Markdown listing and rendering tool.

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