Finally, I'm playing with the cool kids again: using a static site generator instead of Wordpress, the PHP-powered juggernaut. In addition to page load performance improvements, static content also brings the advantage of not having to keep an eye on updates and server logs in order to fight attacks against PHP.
I've managed to convert all content from Wordpress to Markdown - though some amount of needlework was required to fix the code listings and stuff. I also migrated the comments over to Disqus which seems to be the standard solution for static blogs.
I'm still working on some minor shortcomings of the theme which I really love for its simplicity in style and its clean code. This includes Disqus integration, but I'm not ultimately sure whether to really add it or not: including objects from other sources - even via CDN - brings a considerable increase in page loading times.
Permalinks for posts still work (thanks to 301 rewrite directives), as
do tag or category deep-links. RSS and Atom feed URLs have changed, and
I'm still thinking on how to redirect them properly.