Mastodawn

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

Khürt Williams Mar 7

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

Brennan Kenneth Brown Mar 6

Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled | 🔗 https://brennan.day/build-awesomes-kickstarter-is-cancelled/

#Eleventy #StaticSiteGenerators #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #Community #Kickstarter

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

Brennan Kenneth Brown Mar 4

The End of Eleventy | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/

#Eleventy #StaticSiteGenerators #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #Community

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

Mike McCaffrey Feb 13

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.

Brennan Kenneth Brown Feb 12

Introducing Ⓜ️ Meddler! | 🔗 https://brennan.day/introducing-meddler/

#IndieWeb #Medium #OpenSource #StaticSiteGenerators #WebDevelopment

Peter Müller Jan 30

Jean Galea has written a phantastic post called

»My 7-Year-Old Wanted to Build a Website.
Should I Still Teach Him WordPress?«

- The Question Came From An Unexpected Place
- The Dark Cloud Over 2025
- The Landscape Today
- So Why Does WordPress Still Win?
- What About AI?
- So What Should You Actually Use?
- So What About My Son?
- What This Means

If you're into WP you won't regret reading.

https://wpmayor.com/wordpress-replacement-2026/

#WordPress #CMS #AI #Shopify #StaticSiteGenerators #Squarespace #Wix

My 7-Year-Old Wanted to Build a Website. Should I Still Teach Him WordPress?

Is there a real WordPress alternative in 2026? After evaluating the options, here's the uncomfortable truth everyone needs to hear.

WP Mayor

N-gated Hacker News Jan 4

Jeff Geerling just discovered the world of static site generators, 🎉 and he wants us all to throw a #party 🎊 because he moved his personal diary from an enterprise behemoth to #Hugo. Apparently, maintaining a complex CMS for a blog was too much, but #blogging about it was *just right*. 📝🤔
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/migrated-to-hugo/ #staticSiteGenerators #CMSMigration #HackerNews #ngated

JeffGeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo

Since 2009, this website has run on Drupal. Starting with Drupal 6, and progressing through major site upgrades and migrations to 7, 8, 9, and 10, I used the site as a way to dogfood the same CMS (Content Management System) I used in my day job for over a decade. But as time progressed—especially after completing a grueling upgrade from Drupal 7 to 8—my enthusiasm for maintaining what's now a more enterprise-focused Digital Experience Platform or 'DXP' for a personal blog has waned.

Jeff Geerling

podfeet Nov 6

Eddie Tonkoi has taken over the mic and hosted an installment of Programming By Stealth! Listen and read along as he explained how he built a website for his wife’s books using the static site generator Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare for deployment and hosting. If you’d like a “lite” version of this, stay tuned for next week’s NosillaCast.

https://pbs.bartificer.net/tidbit15

#Programming #StaticSiteGenerators #Hugo #ProgrammingByStealth