Hello world!

A pretty traditional, but nice, way to title the first post on a pretty traditional static site generator (written in bash)

This blog is powered by a tiny static site generator I’ve written in bash script. It’s just over 100 lines long! The only features are ‘./blog -n or –new’ to create a new post, and ‘./blog -b or –build’, which is used to generate the whole site. It’s therefore pretty simple.

However, I’ve really tried to make this super simple to use and nice looking too.

Why?

I simply don’t have much need to learn a fully featured static site generator such as the incredible Hugo or the much beloved Jekyll. I just want something to be able to jot down some notes, and writing a short script to do this for me was actually the most efficient way to do this, in my opinion.

Wordpress? It’s great, but it’s far more hassle in terms of maintenance and would be way overkill for this use case. I also like being able to just go into the terminal, jot down some thoughts in Vim (especially with the Goyo plugin), and keep it simple.

Anyway, to see exactly how this works, visit the repo where I’ve written a little bit more about how it functions from a technical standpoint.

See you in the next post!