Building this site from scratch: WordPress refugee notes

Years ago I ran a WordPress site with the Avada theme. It worked, but I never owned it — I rented convenience.

This version is different. The whole site is a folder of files under version control. Publishing a post means writing Markdown and running three commands. There is no database, no plugins to update, nothing to hack.

What it cost me: about a week of evenings learning the terminal, Git, and DNS. What it bought me: a site that costs only the domain renewal, loads fast anywhere in the world, and cannot rot.

More detailed notes coming — including every mistake I made, because those are the useful part.