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I do agree with the author, that you should use the simplest tools you can get away with, but (text-files + jekyll + this + that) isnt just text files, as you s

I do agree with the author, that you should use the simplest tools you can get away with, but (text-files + jekyll + this + that) isnt just text files, as you say its a precarious stack no less complex than some software package or whatever. I guess if you do just want the truly simplest tool for a website, html is probably better than text files, even if it is a bit less ergonomic to write with

YEwSdObPQT 5y ago
> I do agree with the author, that you should use the simplest tools you can get away with, but (text-files + jekyll + this + that) isnt just text files, as you say its a precarious stack no less complex than some software package or whatever. They are advocating for sellotaping tools together to build a workflow near the end of the article. > I guess if you do just want the truly simplest tool for a website, html is probably better than text files, even if it is a bit less ergonomic to write with Writing HTML when you are trying to write content is pretty painful. Way back in the distant past I used to charge about £100 a HTML page. I ended up learning Perl (and later PHP) so I wouldn't have to write HTML.
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