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Re:Static site hosting hurdles by dragontamer on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:43AM (#32732928)
> In fact, you lost me at "static site generator". WTF? Just write the damn HTML and CSS yourself, it's static after all.

At a minimum, static site generators create indexes, table-of-contents, tags, sorts by date, and other such features.

Pretty much no one writes good, raw, HTML these days. Documentation is written Sphinx, texinfo, docbook, and many other formats. Why? Because compiling chapters (or pages) together through static analysis is a very useful pattern for writing.

HTML is just an output pattern. Your actual words should be in a document generator at a minimum.

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Re:Static site hosting hurdles by notpushkin on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:24AM (#32735572)
My website [1] is good raw (X)HTML [2]. It's just a couple of pages though, nothing fancy. If I was keeping a blog or something, I would definitely go for an SSG.

[1]: https://notpushk.in/

[2]: https://gitlab.com/notpushkin/notpushk.in

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Re:Static site hosting hurdles by pdimitar on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:00AM (#32749464)
> It's just a couple of pages though, nothing fancy

Nope. Anything I can have a machine generate for me is fancy if I have to write it by hand.

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