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Ironically, the "about" and "projects" links on his blog are broken (which I guess has been generated by a static site generator).

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Fair enough) But note that these links do not interfere the basic functionality of writing and reading blog posts, which I was going for above all.

Anyways, I've just fixed it (might take some times until the cache expires, don't bash me over again ;-), thanks for the reminder!

A tangential question: does Russian keyboard have the ")" character next to ".", or something? I see you and 'amaccuish making comments in this thread with the ")" char in place where a period should go.

Oh, if you don't put that friendliness indicator after a sentence, people assume you're talking aggressively.

I didn't know until now that this is the Russian equivalent of ":)".

it's their version of a smily face

Oh. Thanks, I learned something today.

Might have something to do with the fact its gh-pages

Which uses one of the most complicated static site generators out there... as in a blog which was valid one day wouldn't "compile" the next. It's just bloody markdown; how unnecessarily complicated is a system that can't compile markdown from one release to the next?

Why no, github-pages does not enforce Jekyll! You can just put a bunch of HTML there. I use hexo, which I like. I could also write HTML by hand or generate directly from markdown.

The default Jekyll setup does indeed rely on some implicit theming, which is not very convenient.

Which has nothing to do with how terrible their static site generation tooling is. "You can bypass it" isn't a convincing argument that it's any good.

I wouldn't even call it a bypass — it's there as a safety net for people who just dump a bunch of markdowns into the repo and expect it to work somehow — it does work somehow.

> You can just put a bunch of HTML there

If I were to already have the artifact files locally I wouldn't commit them in git and push to GitHub, I'd upload them straight to S3/Neocities/whatever. The whole point of Pages is to push some source material and have some CI/CD do the build and deploy.

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