Owning your words

Most writing on the web lives on someone else’s platform. It looks free, but the address belongs to them, the audience is rented, and the words can vanish when the service does.

This blog is the opposite by design. Every post is a Markdown file on disk. crofty turns those files into a plain static site and publishes it to a domain I own. If I ever want to leave, there is nothing to export and no lock-in — the files are already mine, and the site is ordinary Hugo underneath.

Owning the words is not nostalgia. It is the difference between building on ground you hold and building on ground you borrow.