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I've somehow pushed past "authors of custom static site generators" inertia and now I'm publishing blog posts regularly. My tooling for publishing my webpage is
by klodolph 6y ago
I've somehow pushed past "authors of custom static site generators" inertia and now I'm publishing blog posts regularly. My tooling for publishing my webpage is... well, terrible-ish. But one choice that did work out for me was to make the articles not much more than plain HTML.
What I'd like to do is pare down the static website generator I have so it's more dumb and fast. Make it more close to plain HTML. One problem is that I do a full build every time I deploy, and that means that the website is taking longer and longer to deploy as I add to it. But I'm too busy doing things and writing articles about what I do to also work on the tooling!
Optimizing to make your server setup simpler, it turns out, is the wrong optimization!
- corytheboyd 6y ago> pare down the static website generator I have so it's more dumb and fast. Make it more close to plain HTML Once you wrap your head around it, this is what Hugo feels like! Maybe it’s because I don’t work with different static site generators often but it was a bit tough to get right at first
- klodolph 6y agoHugo looks fairly similar to my custom system, but Hugo is somewhat more complicated. I'd like to move towards something simpler, and Hugo looks like it's a step in the wrong direction.
- corytheboyd 6y agoYeah I hear you there, it’s still got tons of features that will probably go unused. Of all the things to build instead of find an existing solution for I think static site generator tooling is a great fit, good luck and have fun :)