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✅ Built-in Backup and Restore script: It will just copy the configuration file, posts, and pages. Nothing else.
✅ Minimal Dependencies.
✅ Markdown Support: Posts and pages are in Markdown (CommonMark, Pandoc, and markdown.pl are supported).
✅ Feature Images.
✅ Optional GNU Parallel Integration: To speed up build times when there are many posts. This feature significantly impacts the code and has caused me numerous headaches over time. But it's optional (if parallel isn't found, it proceeds traditionally) and only provides benefits when the number of posts increases: with few posts, performance actually degrades.
✅ High Accessibility and Performance Scores: Sites built with BSSG achieve excellent scores.
✅ BSD Licensed: Released under a BSD license.

Why Choose BSSG?

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BSSG code isn't extremely consistent, some interesting features are missing (which I plan to implement), and it could use refactoring as the build script is monstrously large. But it works, it's portable (and much of the complexity increased precisely because of portability), and it generates sites that achieve very high accessibility and speed scores.

Here are some highlights:

✅ Portability: Uses native OS tools (e.g., md5sum on Linux, md5 on OpenBSD and NetBSD). Portability itself added much of the complexity!
✅ Simple Theming: Themes are just simple CSS files, so the structure remains the same – simplifying theme switching or creating new ones. More than 50 themes are already available!
✅ Essential Features: Supports RSS feed generation, sitemap.xml, OpenGraph tags (to improve social sharing), internationalization (the blog can be in languages other than English – but not multilingual, at least for now), etc.