Post #2198318

2026-04-14 14:05 UTC

@deafferret@flyovercountry.social I’ve been thinking hard about going back to a roll-your-own approach to SSG. That’s mostly general frustration with the state of everything these days.

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@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch 2026-04-14 14:42

@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town @deafferret@flyovercountry.social When I wrote my last wiki engine (the one I use for my blog right now), I decided that I wanted to stick to some semi-standard Markup language with near-zero extensions in order to facilitate migration. And I immediately wrote a static export to HTML in order to facilitate migration. Both of these because I had locked myself in with my previous wiki (written in Perl). I allowed and encouraged and did all sorts of redefinitions and extensions to the markup rules in config files and it was a glorious mess for 20 years but also nearly impossible to get rid of and migrate away from.

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@gizmomathboy@mastodon.xyz 2026-04-14 16:58

@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town @deafferret@flyovercountry.social yeah, since statocles is rather stagnant I was pondering doing something with template::toolkit Nothing else in the perl ssg land excites me

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