The End of Eleventy

Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.

brennan.day
Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)

Some technical notes on how and why we moved from WordPress to Jekyll, a well-known static site generator (SSG).

DemandSphere

New post: The Markdown Link no. 17

’Tis the season to give chocolate, so here’s my present to you…

Among today’s links are markdown editors Notable and NotesMe, a command-line tool called Markdown-to-Book, a free macOS utility called Markedly, and Docmd, a static site generator for your documentation

https://md-handbook.com/blog/markdown-link-no-17/

#markdown #markdowneditors #staticsitegenerators #Notable #NotesMe #Markdown-to-Book #Markedly #Docmd

New post: The Markdown Link no. 14

‘It’s a new dawn (DST), it’s a new day’ and there’s a new links post up for today’s links, which are markdown editors Sidenotes, Grape and CollabMD, a wiki tool called Otterwiki – you have got to love the choice of name – and BlogMore, a static site generator developed entirely in Copilot.

https://md-handbook.com/blog/markdown-link-no-14/

#markdown #markdowneditors #staticsitegenerators #Otterwiki #wiki #BlogMore #Grape #CollabMD #Sidenotes

On the face of it I *really* prefer Astro's focus on strong typing through TypeScript and a lot of reasonable defaults. It makes for a great developer experience.

But between being bought by CloudFlare, people assosciated with the seeming to have problematic views (though this is not uncommon) and apparently using LLMs for the project I've become skeptical of the project and it's quality.

This is making me seriously consider Build Awesome (nee 11ty/Eleventy) for my static site generator needs. It seems like you have to do *quite* a bit of configuration to get it to work as well as Astro does by default.

On the other hand, maybe more explicit configuration is a good thing? Astro is very implicit.

#webdev #staticsitegenerators

Does it matter?

(This post is being modified)

https://islandinthenet.com/does-it-matter/

Does it matter? - Island in the Net

Every few months someone asks me why I haven’t moved my website to a static site generator. The suggestion is always well-meaning, and the argument is always roughly the same: static sites ar…

Island in the Net
Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled

After only a couple days, Build Awesome's Kickstarter has been cancelled and rescheduled due to email delivery issues that ruined the project's momentum despite reaching their funding goal in a single day.

brennan.day
The End of Eleventy

Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.

brennan.day
Still amazed at all the people who were really into #StaticSiteGenerators because they are so efficient and reliable, who are all into #AI now despite it being the least efficient option available and entirely unreliable.