Build and publish for the indie web.

Own the whole stack: write locally, render clean static pages, and ship to your domain without ever giving up control.

Inkstead Writer

Write. Build. Publish.

An opinionated publishing engine for personal indie websites, built around Markdown and owning your content.

Posts, pages, media, and collections in your repo
Plume themes for layouts and components
Feeds plus optional social syndication
Deploy to static hosts or your own server

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2026-06-02-field-notes.md

---
title: Field notes from a small web
date: 2026-06-02T18:30:00+01:00
categories: [indieweb, publishing]
syndication:
  mastodon: true
---

I want my writing to start here, on a domain I own.

Plume

Templating language

The engine behind Inkstead Writer sites. Expressive, flexible, and developer-first.

Components with slots and named arguments
Escaped output by default
Colocated styles, scripts, and assets
Static rendering with no runtime overhead

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post.plumelayout.plume

<article class="post">
  <header>
    <h1>{post.title}</h1>
    <p>{post.date | date("MMM d, yyyy")}</p>
  </header>

  {post.content}

  @if post.categories.size > 0 {
    <ul class="categories">
      @for category in post.categories {
        <li>{category}</li>
      }
    </ul>
  }
</article>