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I suggest having both. My TILs site runs uses a GitHub repository where the notes live in markdown: https://github.com/simonw/til Plus a build script running in a GitHub actions workflow that compiles the notes into a SQLite file using my markdown-to-sqlite tool and publishes the resulting SQLite file using Datasette to https://til.simonwillison.net - which gives me search and an Atom feed and suchlike. The site has custom templates so it Durant look like regular Datasette, but you can run custom queries against it at https://til.simonwillison.net/tils

I've been using my Datasette tool, originally intended for exploring databases, to build full-blown websites and it's working surprisingly well. It supports Jinja templates and runs on SQLite databases so it's actually a good fit for semi-static sites. Here's what Datasette looks like by default: - https://latest.datasette.io And here are three websites that are actually just Datasette with some custom templates and plugins: - https://datasette.io (data: https://datasette.io/content code: https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io ) - https://til.simonwillison.net (data: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils code: https://github.com/simonw/til ) - https://www.niche-museums.com (data: https://www.niche-museums.com/browse code: https://github.com/simonw/museums ) They're all hosted on either Vercel or Google Cloud Run at the cost of no more than a