A developer explains why they moved away from WordPress and built their own static site generator for better performance and simplicity.
A 5-day technical guide to building and publishing a website using Hugo and DigitalOcean, without a CMS.
A guide to automating the deployment of a Pelican static site to GitHub Pages using a custom git hook and branch strategy.
A developer shares performance data showing a 30x speed improvement after migrating a blog from WordPress to Jekyll on GitHub Pages.
A developer details migrating their blog to Hugo, a static site generator, and deploying it on Azure for improved performance and reduced maintenance.
An author shares their experience of publishing a 6000-word article on Smashing Magazine about scaling a static site generator for 2000 pages.
A guide on using Jekyll's custom collections to create visual CSS cheatsheets and demos for rapid testing and learning.
A technical guide on automating static site deployment using cron jobs and Git to schedule and publish blog posts.
A developer explains their decision to start a new blog using Hugo and GitHub Pages, aiming for weekly posts.
The author explains their decision to start a blog using Jekyll, citing its simplicity, GitHub integration, and support for Markdown.
The author announces that their personal blog's source code is now publicly available on GitHub, making it open source.
A developer details their migration from Jekyll to Ghost for their blog, covering theme creation, post export, and domain transfer challenges.
A developer explains their technical reasons for migrating a personal blog from WordPress to the Middleman static site generator.
Explains how to add a 'suggest an edit' link to Jekyll blog posts, enabling readers to easily submit corrections via GitHub pull requests.
The article argues for making website source code public by default, especially for blogs and simple sites, to help other developers learn and collaborate.
An explanation of Jekyll collections, a powerful feature for organizing non-chronological content like products or recipes on a static website.
A technical guide on setting up a Sculpin static site generator blog and deploying it using Laravel Forge.
A developer details migrating their personal website from WordPress to a static site using Pelican, Pure CSS, and Disqus for simplicity and security.
A technical guide on how to automatically parse and embed YouTube videos in a static site built with the Hakyll framework using custom filters and regex.
Handroll 1.1, a static website generator, is released with new features like code highlighting, plugins, and better documentation.
