<story><title>Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator</title><url>https://arne.me/articles/write-your-own-ssg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icyfox</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;d advocate for writing a static site generator, although I&amp;#x27;m certainly guilty of writing a few myself.&lt;p&gt;Instead I always encourage people who are trying to start blogging to do the writing first. Figure out a workflow that works for you - what time of day you prefer writing, what editor, do diagrams naturally come up in your thought stream, etc. It&amp;#x27;s way easier to get this workflow dialed in when you&amp;#x27;re doing things locally since the switching cost between solutions is that much lower.&lt;p&gt;Only when you know that you A) enjoy writing and B) have something worth sharing should you invest the time in translating your workflow to something that can deployed. That might mean writing your own SSG - that might mean just spinning up a wordpress blog.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miroljub</author><text>But if you write a static site generator, you can blog about it. And that can be the first and the last post of your blog.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t write one, the chance is good, your blog would stay empty.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator</title><url>https://arne.me/articles/write-your-own-ssg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icyfox</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;d advocate for writing a static site generator, although I&amp;#x27;m certainly guilty of writing a few myself.&lt;p&gt;Instead I always encourage people who are trying to start blogging to do the writing first. Figure out a workflow that works for you - what time of day you prefer writing, what editor, do diagrams naturally come up in your thought stream, etc. It&amp;#x27;s way easier to get this workflow dialed in when you&amp;#x27;re doing things locally since the switching cost between solutions is that much lower.&lt;p&gt;Only when you know that you A) enjoy writing and B) have something worth sharing should you invest the time in translating your workflow to something that can deployed. That might mean writing your own SSG - that might mean just spinning up a wordpress blog.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepspace</author><text>&amp;gt;  I&amp;#x27;m certainly guilty of writing a few myself.&lt;p&gt;So am I. My first one was written in C in 1995, and the resultant site run under NCSA Httpd.  DIY-ing becomes tedious after several cycles, though.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, my experience with generally available SSGs has been miserable.  They keep breaking my site after a few upgrades.  At this point, I am very close to just spinning up wordpress for a new site.</text></comment>