I’m still waiting for better Windows Git Auth integration in GitButler. I don’t want to enter my key password for each remote action (fetch or push).

lol, the T-shirt with the trademark text paragraphs

sounds like a skin disease.”

I mean… it does occasionally make my skin crawl

If Markdown formatting is enough for you, I would look into using a static site generator, like Hugo or Jekyll.

If you want to keep your existing content as static files but same website skeleton and layout instead of copying and editing files you’ll copy one and create the layout template. Then content and new posts and pages can be generated from Markdown files. If you set up CI they won’t need to run Hugo or what you’re using, only push the Markdown files to your Git repository.

Whatever you want to do primarily depends on: Your formatting, styling, functionality, and interfacing needs for the editor, and what you’re willing to use or invest for setup.

Hugo runs from a single binary. The source layout is reasonable. With a single layout the folder structure doesn’t have to be complex.

I’m not very familiar with alternative [Markdown] static site generators.

You’re good to keep your skepticism. If you trust them, the ones creating the tutorial to have vetted to a degree, or that a very popular package like that is vetted to a reasonable degree, you’ll just go ahead with it. (Like most people do without questioning it.)

You’ll need considerable experience and insight to do good, reasonable risk assessment. Without that, you can either trust and hope in others, or skip the ecosystem and look for alternative technologies.

It’s also worth noting that your potential impact is considerable lower if you’re only doing local test and development work, not publishing or publicly serving anything. I’m not personally familiar if or to what degree running arbitrary local commands has been limited in the npm ecosystem by now.

If you’re fine with or want a two-pane Commander, Double Commander supports FTP.

I feel like a lot of alternative file explorers do!? Pretty sure I’ve seen it relatively often/regularly.

Double Commander is free and open source. I’ve been using it for a long time. I’m not sure which one I used before, but could very well have been FreeCommander.

I’ve liked the idea of it, but IIRC it launched with noticeable delay. Even if it’s only one or two seconds, I want to access my files fast.

Linux isn’t even a file explorer. Different distros serve different file explorers by default.

I’ve been using Double Commander for a long time. I can recommend.

I’ve looked for alternatives occasionally, because I’d prefer some things differently, preferably something I’d be able to source inspect or work on as well, but haven’t found anything better.