back in the day, a friend of mine also made a perl-based static site generator for her blog, and i totally made fun of her for it, because, who would want a sta

back in the day, a friend of mine also made a perl-based static site generator for her blog, and i totally made fun of her for it, because, who would want a static site?!?! and perl?? ugh. i thought my (dynamic) blog custom-built in php was the bee's knees because i could have comments and my own admin interface. how silly i was. =) particularly with the advance of front-end development (and automatable deployment pipelines), static generation makes so much more sense now.