i wrote an ssg lol
...and it was!
it's written in python, has no name, will likely never be packaged, and is written specifically for what i need it to do :D
if you really want to see the source it's available on codeberg
at the moment it only works with html pages, which makes writing text pages like this a little more tedious than id like it to be, but itll eventually :tm: support markdown. a more detailed description of its quirks is in the readme
the main reason i made it in the first place, besides the idea being cool, was to make writing """blog posts""" easier than writing out the entire html structure by hand (except this page. ig.) and to automate stuff like the fancy header and breadcrumbs. i briefly tried dollgen but couldnt wrap my head around it enough to stick with it, though i definitely got the modify-as-you-go ssg-in-site-source approach from it lol
the next things i want to work on are, in no particular order:
- markdown support, obviously
- page generation caching, so im not generating and copying the same pages repeatedly
- potentially custom jinja tags, im not sure what theyd do, but the idea sounds cool
- additional page metadata, like last update time
- date sorting
- maybe webmention. i think it would be funny
- automatic regeneration when pages change
maybe someday ill even set my site up on a proper webhost!