[falsedan]

I’ve been baffled by how brittle static site generator tools are, and how forcefully they push their workflow/concepts onto the user.

I gave up on Jekyll when I tried to hook it up to hit & push each published site as a branch patented to the site branch & the corresponding master commit that was used to generate it.

I ended up fiddling with my SSG and exploring software designs that make it easy to add in weird extra behaviour. I really like how Dist::Zilla (Perl package publishing tool) allows so much flexibility and reuse, without many strong opinions of its own (mostly that packages are a collection of files and that prepare plugins should run before publish ones).