Post #790104

2026-03-04 17:19 UTC

Lots of renewed talk about static site generators &#39;round these parts (which is awesome), so let me do a little shoutout to Pelican https://getpelican.com @pelican I chose this over 11ty (which I did try!) because it&#39;s written in Python, which is one of the few (the only?) languages I know(ish), and because I&#39;m more comfortable with their upgrade schedule (more like yearly instead of what felt like weekly with 11ty - that just stresses me out - YMMV, of course). Anyway, it&#39;s a great little SSG if the other ones out there don&#39;t float your boat. It powers my site at: https://mitten.lol

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@justin@ramble.space 2026-03-04 17:40

@mitten Hey Laura! I just saw this post and your site, and I have to say that I am *obsessed* with your site’s design. SO good. I just added your site to my feed reader. I’m really happy to hear that Pelican is working well for you, and I am delighted to have played a role in making the software that powers your web site. Thank you for the shout-out, which truly made my day 🌟

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@leouieda@bertha.social 2026-03-04 19:15

@mitten @pelican I love the design of your site! And saving your PyCon talk to my watch list 🙂 (in case anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/M2bMpiztBxQ)

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 19:41

@mitten @pelican also the one I use on my blog. Although my version is probably painfully ancient at this point, I can't remember when I last upgraded 😬. It just does what I need!

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@kickingvegas@sfba.social 2026-03-04 19:57

@mitten @pelican Nice! I'm also a Pelican user. Here's my blog - http://yummymelon.com/devnull/

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@octade@soc.octade.net 2026-03-04 19:49

@pelican@fosstodon.org I haven't tried Pelican. Good to know. Long ago I wrote a site generator that iterates a directory of text and markdown files and converts them to a themed HTML website with links to the binary files with hash digests for all the files so users can verify integrity. Maybe I should dig it up and add digital signatures to the engine then share it. Would anyone use this sort of thing?

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