A static site is a useful constraint
What a small Markdown-first site makes obvious about build time, content, and deployment.
Topic
Static sites
Why static output is still the default
A build that produces ordinary files is easier to inspect, cache, and move than a server that must be healthy for every request.
Search without a search server
Pagefind turns the finished HTML into a small browser-side index, so the site gets useful search without a database or API route.