I was looking at some discussion of static site generators and whether one could be used for blogs since it was designed for documentation.
FFS. A blog is just text with a date at the top, and optionally hyperlinks to whatever you're talking about. Bonus points for an index of titles and dates.
I keep thinking that all the crap we've layered on top of web pages is hostile and anti-democratic, that it's all gatekeeping, that the original point was to make it easy to publish text and share it.
@foolishowl That’s so odd - even a cursory look at something like #hugo / #GoHugo reveals a ton of themes that are for documentation OR blogs. (I found fewer themes for SSG for small service-oriented businesses, which surprised me because it seems so obviously suited for that niche.)
Agree about your hostile comment tho. A lot out there is way more complex than it needs to be.
@jonobie That's true of Hugo, and I think the most widely used SSGs. I've looked at some more obscure ones, and today I was looking at some that use AsciiDoc rather than Markdown, and they've seemed to be more specific about use cases.
Mostly I'm ranting about things being made unnecessarily difficult.
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