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I was instantly inspired by Karl's work on his "blog.sh" shell script[0] that he mentions in this article. I took it and tweaked it to create my own minimalist SSG called "barf"[1]. That wouldn't exist if Karl didn't share his wonderful work publicly!

[0]: https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh [1]: https://barf.bt.ht

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Ah, a fellow person of culture. Mine is called shite [1], which makes my site [2]. The name alludes to the software quality :)

What I like most about it is I haven't had to upgrade anything, and don't expect to forever. And a close second; it "hot reloads" without javascript.

[1] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

[2] https://evalapply.org

Haha I sense a trend for these home grown static site generators :-)

Yours are much more advanced, but a few years back I made a minimal PHP static page generator and named it...

PHP keep It Stupid Simple, or in short P.I.S.S.

https://blog.nyman.re/2020/10/11/introducing-piss-a.html

Well, if you see my templating code, I've basically written PHP, but in Bash :D

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