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@drwho i swear i'm about to cobble this together myself out of batch scripts for the hell of it just so i don't have to overengineer wrapping a block of text around mostly unchanging HTML

"here's how to make a simple blog in [generator]!"

"ok and how do i make modular subpages of content generated from different files"

"... here's how you put tags in the blog you just created! and ooh rss feed!"

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not a huge fan how most SSGs assume *all* you want to do with them is blog

"amd64" and "arm64" blend together too much for me in binary release lists 😖

@batbeeps terminal faffery that i can stuff in a batch file is fine

npm on windows is fucking miserable

hugo is the only one that offers windows binaries it seems so i'm going with that

@selectric @lmorchard looks like between zola and hugo i'm going with hugo if only because zola's windows installation is like "ok use either of these package managers that's actually linux under the hood" and hugo has an actual windows binary instead

i want an idiot button "click here to generate your website" that doesn't yell at them "UHH HYOURÉ RUNNING THE WRONG BERSION OF NODE THIS IS 7.2 I NEED 7.2.3"

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i wanna like static site generators but like is there one i can give my client that doesn't require them to install a programming language first like node or python or ruby

i want something like eleventy but standalone without npm

I have two (2!!!) portraits by @mavica_again, one in each of the styles that it currently offers ("MS-DOS Executive" and "Finder Icon") and I love them. mavica is really good at channeling a person's likeness down into a grid of curiously expressive pixels. You should commission it! maple.pet/commissions

@hergaiety uughhh i've been wanting to get myself something for so long but none of the places ship to my country

maybe i should take the opportunity of being in the UK before i forget about it again

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