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>The benefits of using a templating system is not worth the cost of introducing the tooling it requires. Other people use static site generation, you use searc
by Hitton 6y ago
>The benefits of using a templating system is not worth the cost of introducing the tooling it requires.
Other people use static site generation, you use search and replace in your editor - not much of difference. Your approach is slower in long term, but with your on average 1 article per year it will take some time until you reach the threshold.
- lhorie 6y agoEh, I don't think a person can ever write enough articles and rewrite their layout enough times that search+replace overhead ends up bigger than the upfront time it takes to read jekyll/hugo/whatever docs (plus debugging idiosyncrasies, etc). And even if search and replace was slower overall, you might be looking at a difference of minutes over a period of decades (i.e. it wouldn't actually matter in any practical sense). Far too often I see people spend days to save 2 seconds (and then proceed to not realize the savings over a long enough timespan)
- alpaca128 6y agoIn reality the time saved isn't the only significant factor though, humans aren't machines after all. I'll gladly "waste" a bit more time if that time makes the process more enjoyable in the end.