Pico.sh has been great

Life’s been stressful lately, and I’m feeling the wear and tear. So I’m going to write about something easy and peaceful and fun: I’ve been thoroughly happy with pico.sh pages since moving my blog a couple months ago. One thing I dislike about deploying with Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and the like is having to spin up an entire deployment pipeline for what might be a one-word edit. This is where a CMS wins by a mile. (And maybe I just shouldn’t care because in the scheme of things this sort of activity is miniscule, but I can’t help it. Efficiency is where I spend my neurosis points.) Pico deployments use rsync, which is a great way to ship a static site. I build the site locally on my home server, which takes a fraction of a second, and then rsync sends only the files that have meaningfully changed over to the live site. This is simple and efficient, not to mention transparent, as the rsync logs tell me exactly what’s changing. The cherry on top: Pico’s cache busting has been…