I like to blog in HTML with vim or other simple text editor. Not that Vim is simple, but the text your editing is simple ASCII character text, of other similar encoding. It has many advantages over high level blogging tools:

• You have more flexibility in general.
• Using a blogging tool restricts you to common use cases, and makes doing uncommon things hard to do.
• I like working with files and directories. Most blogging tools completely remove the ability work with files and directories. I run one program that can recursively copy all files from one computer to another, but only if it needs too. The program is rsync and runs over an ssh connection.
• I learn HTML, javaScript, CSS, PHP, LaTex, make, and many other interesting languages
• I learn about computer and network systems, protocols, and programs like rsync
• You have more flexibility. The set of things that are allowed in high level blogging tools is very small compared to what you can do without having it constrain you. For example blogging tools make it much harder to make an HTML table based on data in a file that may be changing over time. Using blogging tools adds an unwanted interface layer that can change with time. Where as HTML 5 is pretty stable.
• Blogging tools just get in the way.
• The use of large blogging server farms (facebook, etc) tends to make large closed Intranets which is converse to the idea of an open Internet. They are like the closed AOL Internet all over again. They ride on the Internet but restrict it toward being closed and centralized.
• When the F-ing Internet is down I can still edit blog. Like yesterday and the day before (2014-01-07 and 09).

The cons; by using a high level blogging tool:

• You don't have to do as much work for most common cases.
• You won't learn how to use WordPress (or other like thing). This is a big con given how popular WordPress is. Knowing WordPress puts you on common ground with others.

I started writing web pages soon after HTTP was first developed, so back then the only way to write web pages was with a text editor. This essay may be a stab at developing tools for low level web developers like myself. So that's where I'm coming from.