WordPress gives me a place that is clearly for managing content. Not building, not configuring, not upgrading a toolchain. Writing. That matters more to me now than whether the site is statically generated, server-rendered, or deployed from Git.
On switching from a SSG to WordPress because WordPress is more conducive to focusing on writing than the underlying tech.
Ru does a retrospective about how much work and energy a static site can be to maintain a personal website.
Yet, every time I open up my Eleventy codebase, I want to puke (figuratively). Having gained distance and perspective from the codebase, it now looks less like a personal website and more like software. Even if a lot of it is well-engineered, it feels overblown for what it is supposed to do.
Even for a smart and experienced programmer, maintaining a static website generator site can be a lot of work.
A Digital Garden Theme for Gatsby. Gatsby Garden lets you create a static HTML version of your markdown notes
This also supports Obsidian wikilinks