My Current Fascination — Page 1

Static Site Generators

2022-10-24

So my current fascination is static site generators—programs that you can feed, for example, a set of plain-text blog files, and have them rendered into a folder full of “static” HTML files that can be deployed directly to a webserver with no “moving parts.”

Websites made of static files are nice, both because those files are very easy to cache for a significant speed up at load time, and because the number of places security holes could be hiding is greatly reduced. This blog uses an SSG called Eleventy.js.

Ubiquitous, Mundane Magic

2022-10-31

I’ve been thinking again lately about how we live in a world with ubiquitous, mundane magic.