Neil Brown

Running #BSSG on my laptop, rather than on a Raspberry Pi 4, takes ~3 minutes, rather than ~7 minutes.

And if I turned off descriptions / excerpts generation, it would cut that down even further.

I might go down this path, rsyncing everything back to the webserver, rather than just rsyncing the post across to the webserver and building and deploying the site on the webserver.

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Show threadDan Sugalski15h ago
@neil I didn't know what BSSG even was so I looked it up and... wow. Props for ambition to the author of that.
Show threadNeil Brown15h ago

@wordshaper Ah, my apologies:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/moving-my-static-site-blog-generator-from-hugo-to-bssg/

Moving my static site blog generator from hugo to BSSG

Notes on setting up BSSG, and migrating from hugo

Show threadDan Sugalski15h ago
@neil Oh, no, no, no need to explain or apologize! I was curious and I always twitch a bit when someone mentions something that trips my "that ought to be faster" sense so I figured I'd go look to see what BSSG even was. I am now deeply impressed by the author's ambition and commitment to the bit. (And also trying hard to sit on the nerd-snipey part of my brain thinking "well, y'know, I bet there are things you could do to bash to speed up its script exectution..." because that won't end well)
Show threadLars Wirzenius15h ago
@neil SSGs are fun. I'm building myself one that's compatible with ikiwiki. I aim to get run time under 10s for my 5000+ page biggest site.