| God on Clayton to publish his thoughts on his own blog! That said, he's throwing the baby out with the bath water and making convoluted claims. I agree with some of them, but I'll exercise my desire to write more and reply: > My hope is that I’ll take advantage of this and start writing more! Choosing to self-publish one's blog is already at odds with "I'm doing this to write more". So blaming handwritten HTML for added friction is not so fair. Literally writing every single page of HTML is unnecessarily strict. As another commenter mentions, why not add a few client-side templates for header/footer, a global nav etc. Jekyll is really not a very ergonomic static site generator. I got GitHub famous for a hot-second because I wrote a little framework to help: https://github.com/jekyllbootstrap. TLDR: Jekyll is famous because the cofounder of GitHub made it. Not really because it's the best or even a good implementation. It's neat, it's just, why would you use that if you have access to a fully ruby runtime. Anyway, I love hand-writing HTML so my bias out. I don't think it's HTML's fault. HTML is super easy to write, as OP agrees. I made my own little website framework (of course); it's not ready for prime-time but you can peruse here: https://plusjade.com/demos/index.html |