# About static site generators

<https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/>

- Host: [fvsch.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/fvsch.com/)
- Saved: October 14, 2018 (2018-10-14T05:22:28Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ff864f1890f6/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ff864f1890f6.json

## What Jamie wrote

An assessment of static site generators and the somewhat miserable landscape of authoring tools. I agree with the central push of this piece. I keep finding that static site generators introduce far too much friction into my writing process. One may note that [my microblog](https://micro.thingelstad.com) and [linkblog](https://links.thingelstad.com) are both very active while [my blog](https://www.thingelstad.com) is pretty quiet. That is almost entirely because writing for Jekyll, the static site generator I use, is too hard. Tools like [Forestry](https://forestry.io) offer some hope to make this better, but the configuration is still orders of magnitude too hard.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT76: Weekly Thing #76 / Oct 20, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/76/), Notable Links 📌

## Saved the same week

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- [The Decline of OpenID](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6ab358534730/) (penguindreams.org, October 11, 2018)
- [ongoing by Tim Bray · On Cash](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/654bcb71a325/) (tbray.org, October 14, 2018)
- [Muze](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/301c91f8166a/) (charts.com, October 14, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/