RSS was supposed to have died years ago. Google killed Google Reader in 2013 and the obituaries were written. Podcasting quietly kept RSS alive as its distribution backbone, and a persistent community of readers, developers, and publishers never stopped using it. In 2026, RSS is …
Sanity is a headless CMS built around a principle it calls “structured content” — the idea that content should be modeled as data first, with …
Listmonk is an open-source newsletter and mailing list manager — a self-hosted alternative to Mailchimp, ConvertKit, and similar services. It is …
Hugo is fast to build and fast to get started with, but a blank new site has some deliberate setup work before it is ready to publish. This …
Substack’s pitch is friction removal: sign up, start writing, collect subscribers, charge for access. No hosting to configure, no plugin to install, …
The static site generator landscape has matured considerably. What was once a niche developer preference — choosing a build tool over a CMS — is now a …
Every few years, a platform that indie publishers relied on changes the rules. Algorithm changes cut organic reach. Monetization programs introduce …
The WordPress block editor — introduced in 2018 as the Gutenberg project and now simply the default editing experience — has matured into a genuinely …
The WordPress REST API has been part of WordPress core since version 4.7. It transforms WordPress from a self-contained CMS into a content platform …
Tina CMS is an open-source, Git-backed content management system with a distinguishing feature that sets it apart from most headless options: inline …