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> Inevitably, you will want to do something the framework did not forecast and will come up with convoluted ways to do it anyway. I always find static site gen
by Hirrolot 4y ago
> Inevitably, you will want to do something the framework did not forecast and will come up with convoluted ways to do it anyway.
I always find static site generators a kind of leaky abstraction. They eventually try to abstract nearly the whole functionality of the web stack, and the larger the SSG the more apparent it becomes. But, for obvious reasons, they just cannot abstract all the peculiarities of the web from you.
I write posts in Markdown, use Pandoc to convert `.md` to `.html` and a simple Go script in 200-300 LoC [1] for my https://hirrolot.github.io/ https://hirrolot.github.io/.
[1] https://github.com/Hirrolot/hirrolot.github.io/blob/master/gen.go https://github.com/Hirrolot/hirrolot.github.io/blob/master/g...