Static Site Generators #

Readings #

• Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText - a tale of docs-as-code - Dewan’s Blog
  • Discussion on Hacker News
• Which Generator builds Markdown the fastest?—zachleat.com
• Trying every technical blogging platform | Simon Berens
  • SimonBerens/technical-blog-exploration

Things to keep an eye on #

Generators (sort of) #

• Introduction - mdBook Documentation
  • rust-lang/mdBook: Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
• MkDocs
  • mkdocs/mkdocs: Project documentation with Markdown.
• MyST - Markedly Structured Text
  • executablebooks/MyST-Parser: An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx
• VitePress
  • vuejs/vitepress: Vite & Vue powered static site generator.
• tDiary.org
  • tdiary/tdiary-core: tDiary, The TSUKKOMI-able Weblog.
• SilverRainZ/silverrainz.github.io: My note-taking system powered by Sphinx
  • 我如何用 Sphinx 建立笔记系统（二）系统架构 — 银色子弹
• PreTeXt
• Docutils: Documentation Utilities
• ozy/makefile-blog: A static blog website generator written in makefile with various tools.
  • The Idea Of Makefile Blog | Metin’s Blog
• Pelican – A Python Static Site Generator

Themes #

• Sphinx Themes Gallery
• ntno/mkdocs-terminal: monospace theme for MkDocs
• Halide - Jamstack portfolio theme
  • danurbanowicz/halide: A customizable, responsive image portfolio website template, built with Eleventy and Tina CMS
• SwissFolio
  • michael-andreuzza/swissfolio
• TWCARTY
  • sira313/TWCARTY: An eleventy starter project for photographers or artists to showcase their work and blog.
• 11ty Brutalism
  • adamdjbrett/11ty-brutalism: Brutalism CSS theme
• Dante
  • JustGoodUI/dante-astro-theme: Dante, a single-author blog and portfolio theme for Astro.js.
• Minimal - Astro blog theme
  • ekmas/minimal: Minimalistic astro blog theme.

Comment systems #

• umputun/remark42: comment engine
  • Remark42 – Privacy-focused lightweight commenting engine | Remark42

CMS #

• Front-end interfaces | Hugo

Other stuff #

• microfeed
  • microfeed/microfeed: a lightweight cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls.
• Intro - Hatsu Documentation
  • importantimport/hatsu: 🩵 Self-hosted & Fully-automated ActivityPub Bridge for Static Sites. [WIP]
• Trying every technical blogging platform | Simon Berens
• Bear Blog
  • HermanMartinus/bearblog: Free, no-nonsense, super fast blogging.

Entertainment #

Link: Blogging vs. blog setups - Rakhim.org