The Markdown Way

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A Pragmatic Approach to Self-Hosting a Markdown Blog

Many developers and writers love the idea of building a personal blog from the ground up. It’s a chance to control every aspect of your site, from the code to the content. But while self-hosting a markdown blog offers incredible freedom, it also brings a unique set of challenges. This post will give...

How to Add Google Analytics to a Static Markdown Blog

If you run a markdown blog or another type of static site, you’ll eventually want to track how people use it. Whether you are interested in seeing which posts get the most attention, finding out where visitors are coming from, or checking how often someone returns, analytics can help. For most stati...

hosted.md Dev Update: Beta Launch Tomorrow 🚀

We’re excited to share that hosted.md will officially be ready for beta testing tomorrow, Wednesday 6th August. If you've been following along as we build this thing in public, this is the moment we've been working toward. You’ll be able to build and manage your site directly in the browser using ou...

How to Organize a Long Form Project in Markdown

Markdown is known for its clean, minimal format. It’s great for blog posts, notes, and technical documentation. But it also works surprisingly well for longer projects - things like books, serialized essays, newsletters, or multi-part guides. If you’re working on something bigger than a single blog...

Why Markdown Needs a More User-Friendly Future

Markdown is one of the most useful writing formats ever created. It's lightweight, easy to read, and gives writers control over their content without locking them into a bloated tool. It was designed to make plain text beautiful on the web. But somewhere along the way, Markdown publishing became mor...

A Git-Free Workflow for Blogging with Markdown

If you’ve ever tried setting up a static blog and felt like you needed a degree in Git just to publish a post, you’re not alone. The idea of writing with Markdown is appealing. Clean formatting, no distractions, full control over your content. But once Git, GitHub, or command-line tools enter the pi...

How to Optimize Markdown Blog Posts for SEO

Markdown is one of the cleanest ways to write for the web. It keeps your content focused, distraction-free, and easy to manage. But if you’re using Markdown to power a blog on a static site, you might be wondering how SEO fits into the picture. No plugins, no bloated CMS, no fancy tools. Just plain...

Why Writers Should Learn a Little Markdown

If you're a writer, editor, blogger, or any kind of creative who works with words, Markdown might sound like something meant only for developers. The truth is, it isn’t. Markdown is a simple way to format text using plain characters. It’s easy to learn, surprisingly powerful, and gives writers more...

Why We Chose Cloudflare R2 Over AWS for hosted.md

As we continue building out hosted.md, one of the key decisions has been choosing where and how your websites will actually be hosted. It might sound like a small behind-the-scenes thing, but it's the foundation for how fast, reliable, and flexible the service can be. This is especially important wh...

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