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The thing I love about Jekyll and other SSGs is being able to build my site into a bunch of static files and put every single one of those files on my own serve
by Lammy 5y ago
The thing I love about Jekyll and other SSGs is being able to build my site into a bunch of static files and put every single one of those files on my own server, on IPFS, or even just for offline viewing, so there's no need to leak requests to the Cloudflares/Amazons/Googles of the world.
Meanwhile "the Jamstack" seems to be the exact opposite of that, a privacy nightmare all about gluing together micro-APIs that I have to keep paying for forever. I could wake up one day and find that my """static""" site is suddenly missing all its images because Cloudinary is having an outage or whatever. Why would I want to subject my readers to this, much less myself?
- cutler 5y agoBecause we live in an age in which DIY/solo development isn't respected anymore. Devs today think nothing of filling-up 500Mb with node modules just to generate a static site. I've even seen SSG's in Docker images.