Ask HN: How does Paul Graham write and maintain his essays?

[vickypathi]

Does he write a new essay every time and edit the HTML and push it to server? Or he has a web application in place, where he pushes an essay from different sources?

Also I am planning to create my own blog site(list of articles, based on tags, search etc). How should I approach it? I want to have my own blog site like that of Paul graham.

Also suggest the difference between static site generator vs building our own blogging engine for our site?

[gus_massa]

Half guessing, half some facts I remember from previous articles that I can't find in 5 minutes using Google ...

He writes the essays, probably in vi.

The site and menu bar is made in RTML that is the internal language of Yahoo stores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTML

[brudgers]

Why not ask him?

[vickypathi]

I wish I could. But How can I?