You could throw Jekyll, Middleman, Pelican or Hugo on the server and run their build command with a git hook. Then you'd get the same result, but a completely s

You could throw Jekyll, Middleman, Pelican or Hugo on the server and run their build command with a git hook. Then you'd get the same result, but a completely static website without the server needing flask to piece together pages when a user hits the site. The build times wouldn't be instantaneous as it would need to regenerate all the pages, but Hugo is still really snappy for even a large site. You probably post less than users access anyway. This would still check all your boxes: No database No server side auth Non-public drafts (metadata) Commit from anywhere Bonus: Dumb serving (only prebuilt static pages) Optional bonus: Shortcodes, themes, bells whistles The site would be built on the server so it wouldn't be completely dumb like rsync-ing static pages to nginx or something, but that's the rub if you want to be able to use clients with only git as a dependency. Yours is a good solution, I'm just throwing an idea out there for a pre-baked alternative. My original use case didn't call for mobile blogging (not a fan), I run my own gitolite server so auth is already in my camp and I have a multi-tooled build that I didn't want on the server. If something breaks, it happens on my machine instead of on my server. Also just a tip, maybe you want to put a <noscript> tag around an expanded copy of your hamburger menu. Without javascript, your website navigation is broken because you can't expand the menu. Edit: by client, I mean blog-editing-computer not blog-reader's-computer.