Philosophy

If you do a quick search online for web content management systems and blogging platforms, you'll find that there seems to be an option for every mood. Many claim to be simple and turn-key, boasting a plethora of features to make your life easier. But what happens when the software loses favor and it's development stagnates? What about vendor lock-in thanks to the proprietary storage format of your data? How many times will you have to migrate and recover? How closely linked are the dozens of add-ons and the content which it serves?

Wambenger is a project to simplify content publishing and to decouple content from platform. There are only three formats used, and they are used solely for their intended purpose -- markdown for content, html5 for markup, and css for style. They are also all entirely plaintext, which serves a few purposes. Mainly it ensures the future-proofing of the content published. The source of truth is markdown, which is enormously portable and convertable, as well as human-readable. All other content (images, videos, audio, etc.) is stored in it's native format.

While there are already a great number of projects out there that fit some or all of these criteria, I'm a strong believer in having a plurality of options available in the open source ecosystem. Maybe I'll get a few things right where others have mis-stepped. Maybe I'll get every last thing wrong. Either way, the journey is part of the reward.

See Also

• microblog.pub, an ActivityPub-powered microblog.
• grav, a simple file-based web platform.
• blag, a blog-aware static site generator.