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Generates a completely static website from MD (and other formats) files; also handles themes (including a lot of them rendering well on mobile), and different types of content - posts, articles, etc. - depending on the theme.

You can edit posts with any editor you care to for wysiwyg features.

It's open source and, being completely static, cheap as fuck to self host.

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I've taken a look at Hugo multiple times, and... it more complicated than I'd like. For me it really does way to much and customizing themes is way more work than I care for.

Maybe it's time to see if I can make SSG (https://romanzolotarev.com/ssg.html) run on my Mac again, for some reason it won't render anything.

I've created a hybrid system as I also was frustrated with how complicated Hugo is. Oogway [1] is a static site generator and framework for creating websites using Go templates. Take a look if you like :)

[1] https://github.com/emvi/oogway

Looks pretty interesting, I'll give it a try. Thank you.

I currently use Hugo for my personal website, but if I were to start from scratch today, I think I would give Astro a try. https://astro.build/

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