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Why a Read-Only Blog?

Josh · February 11, 2026

A surprising amount of complexity in a web app comes from letting people change things.

When the only verb is GET, a lot of problems simply disappear:

  • No input validation to get wrong
  • No auth required to protect writes
  • Nothing to rate-limit against spam
  • Trivially cacheable responses

The content here is published the old-fashioned way — through a migration and a seed file checked into source control.