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I really don't understand why we are seeing Yet Another Tutorial for Yet Another SSG on the front page of HN.

• tomc1985 9y ago
  Coding to SSGs are fashionable at the moment, yet somehow writing your own HTML isn't...
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  • devopsproject 9y ago
    Writing HTML is what my grandfather did. I am a ninja rockstar growth hacker and use 8 different tools to make it easier.
  • CrystalGamma 9y ago
    Writing the template and the content in HTML is easy enough for me, but I'm still struggling to make post lists, feeds and other things out of it without a lot of administrative effort.
    • tomc1985 9y ago
      But then it isn't really a static site... ... and I get it, one of our webdevs spits out static sites from some PHP code he wrote that builds them. As the guy that has to administer that crap I much prefer to hoist static HTML... but like so many things in the SV tech scene, these stupid "engineers" have to build a thousand different little frameworks with a thousand new buzzwords for a thousand unoriginal, rehashed ideas. Many of them forsaking old techniques that worked well, and in many cases better the cheesy little framework some fresh-off-the-boat bootcamp-grad "envisioned" because he didn't want to learn $UNFASHIONABLELANGUAGEORTECHNIQUE
    • RobGav 9y ago
      Just use Publii, it's new static CMS with GUI and themes, supports Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP. https://getpublii.com https://getpublii.com