topposts.net is a blog that aims to do blogging well. it uses a CMS called bakerite that builds its content as static HTML and supporting CSS/JS and delivers it via an extremely simple Caddy-based file serving mechanism. For readers, almost everything is server-rendered and fast. It runs on a $4/mo VPS. For the author, it runs a small sidecar process that receives requests from some javascript triggered by a web-based editor. the requests then route to code that writes blog posts to disk and rebuilds the static blog with a very low-fidelity atomic build swap. It mostly just works. It also has a basic "likes" system with no auth required for liking.