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Welcome to our blog. Here we share insights, techniques, and design philosophies around website design, applications, and hosting.

Why Flat-File CMS is the Future

July 2, 2026

The website you're viewing right now is built on our own custom Content Management System (CMS), known as Light CMS. Light CMS is a lightweight, flat-file CMS. So, why did we build a lightweight CMS of our own, instead of using WordPress, a CMS we've been managing for our customers for 25 years?

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Styling Markdown with CSS Variables

July 2, 2026

CSS variables (custom properties) have changed the way we write styles. Instead of compiling Sass or Tailwind code repeatedly, we can declare design tokens directly in the stylesheet and inspect them in real-time. When styling compiled Markdown (using libraries like CommonMark), you don't control the class list of every paragraph or heading.

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