No offense intended with this, but, as a web developer, what the heck are you doing creating your site on SquareSpace? Shouldn't you...I dunno...develop your own web site?

No offense intended, but as a web developer, why the heck would I waste my time coding things from scratch, setting up tooling, deployment infrastructure and managing yet another server when I could use a service that does all of that for me? For certain contexts it is far superior. Right tool for the right job, and all that.

Because they don't get paid to build their own stuff. They get paid to do work for clients. A variation on the "shoemaker has no shoes."

With that argument, there should be no marketing departments.

...no, the marketing department's job is to market the company and keep it in the public eye. Perhaps you're thinking of an advertising agency. And I've observed they have the same problem.

If a web developer was large enough to have its own marketing department it could maintain its own site.

In any event, I'm busy developing apps for clients all day - I don't get paid to work on my own stuff so it has lower priority.

I would much rather spend my time creating cool shit to share on GitHub and my site rather than maintain and pay bandwidth, CPU usage, etc bills just so I have a very basic blog and portfolio. Any web developer can write their own blog and website so who cares about that?

Why not just put your SquareSpace site behind Cloudflare? Then you get free SSL.

Good point! I might look into doing just that.