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by pattern 4998 days ago
My first reading of this interpreted it as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "Static websites are resilient enough to last for years, for better or worse!" I do agree with the premise in that most dynamic solutions will in relatively short order (~1-2 years?) show signs of their age - be it memory leaks, security breaches, or just lack of flexibility.

"Me Too Aside": A few months ago I finally started up my personal blog[1] which uses Hyde[2] (the Python brother of Jekyll) and is served via an S3 bucket. I found it extremely refreshing not to have to worry about yet another web infrastructure to maintain. It's exceedingly easy to update and maintain.

[1]: http://www.verdantrefuge.com/ [2]: https://github.com/hyde/hyde