Last Thursday, my WordPress blog went down again. Nothing unusual—it always comes back by itself—but there I was, staring at another reminder of the aging VPS, the security concerns, and the maintenance overhead I'd been avoiding for years. After 22 years of blogging (starting on BlogSpace back in 2003 before migrating to WordPress), I'd been wanting to switch to a static site for the past decade. The benefits were obvious: easier hosting, fewer security issues, better performance. But every time I started, I'd get stuck in configuration hell or lose momentum implementing my own solution. This time felt different. Not...