[Linux-Fan]

Writing should certainly go first. But once you have passed the first iteration of your own self-built static site generator or website the "initial" content may already be there from the previous iteration.

I certainly learned to keep the featureset of such a program to a minimum in order to have a chance to "complete" and publish it.

Btw. the article lists five points that really come close to how such a generator may work. I think mine only leaves out the CSS compilation stuff and offloads the Markdown processing to pandoc...