
Headless world and Sveltia CMS
A while ago I was using Ghost for this blog, but it always felt like overkill. It was focused on serious publishers, not on me pushing minor technical notes and hobby projects once in a while. Being a developer, I love the git-first approach: everything is versioned and can be checked out and edited locally in a code editor. PRs for drafts. So I went with Hugo. While the rendering experience and flexibility are great, it turned out that this made it much harder to post. The fact that I had to have a local git checkout meant the friction was high enough that posting became something that needed a lot of dedication and preparation. So I posted less often than I would have liked to.
Today I realized that I’ve been living under a rock for almost a decade. There is a whole family of headless CMSes