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RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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post #35

I wonder if GitHub will step in and maintain. Isn't it still a built-in part of their pages stack? Even if there isn't new feature development, if it's part of their stack they should step in and maintain it. You don't want bitrot to introduce vulnerabilities through unmaintained publicly exposed things in your stack.

I can't say if the article was ninja edited, but it specifically addresses this.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#92

Jekyll's commit history suggests the "RIP" title is, shall we say, exaggerated. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/commits/master

Thank you!

I don't doubt Jekyll is mature, but there's a difference between mature and abandoned. It looks like at least two different folks are committing, which gives me hope that this project (which we use quite heavily at $DAYJOB) is mature.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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post #92

Jekyll's commit history suggests the "RIP" title is, shall we say, exaggerated. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/commits/master

Thank you! I don't doubt Jekyll is mature, but there's a difference between mature and abandoned. It looks like at least two different folks are committing, which gives me hope that this project (which we use quite heavily at $DAYJOB) is mature.

I love Jekyll. I haven't upgraded it in years because I simply haven't had to. It does the job and that's the highest praise I can give a piece of software.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#94
post #9
post #4

What do people use besides Jekyll?

I've been using Hugo as well. I used Pelican (Python port of Jekyll) for a long time, but Hugo is so much more performant and has a larger ecosystem at this point. The main downside is that the Hugo documentation is sometimes terse and snarky.

I switched my blog from Jekyll to Pelican recently after getting sick of constant ruby package versioning issues. It’s pretty nice, though maybe not as good for getting your site to appear on google search

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#95
post #21

I use Jekyll for a static site and I guess I just don't really understand why it needs further development. I haven't upgraded my version of Jekyll since I think 2017 because it does what it says on the tin. Sometimes it's ok for software to be "done".

My thoughts are the same. Jekyll “just works” for me, why does it need further development?

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#96

I dont often say this on the internet but WFT? I am autistic. I love coding. A single person can create wonderful software that is a gift to everyone as open source. I hate trying to be an extrovert and engage with a lot of people. I hate twitter and discord Does that mean that I and people like me cannot do open source in 2021? Most of these seem like detriments more than anything. * Engagement on Twitter * Official…

Don't think Jekyll is in the state it is in today due to lack of engagement, though it may not check all the boxes - no i think better alternatives propped up and jekyll failed at keeping up with the joneses. Still use it on my personal site without any major hitches though.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#97
One of the things that I like most about Jekyll is that when I return to my blog's repo that I haven't visited in 7 months, it is very easy for me to figure out how to "revive" it and add more content.

I spent a few months making the "ultimate" Gatsby site for my blog. I loved it. A year went by and I had no desire to relearn everything in order to update the thing (and fix the myriad of security vulns GitHub was now warning me about).

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#98
I was using Middleman for a while, but then grew tired of all the dependencies I had to always keep up-to-date. I did the completely illogical thing and built my own static site generator, https://sitepress.cc/

A few years later and I ended up deleting most of it and replacing the internals with Rails. Now Sitepress is just a tiny rails application sitting on top of a bunch of files. Most of the maintenance and dependencies are handled by major Rails lib maintainers. If you’ve grown use to Rails helpers, they’re all there.

When you deploy it, you can compile it into static files and deploy as you’d expect, but you can also deploy it as a rails or rack app … or even embed it into an existing rails app.

When Rails 7.0 gets released I’ll drop JS importmaps into the default install for free and have my dream static site generator that doesn’t have a huge asset compilation step.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

#99
post #70
post #13

> Open source in 2021 looks like: > Engagement on Twitter > Official Discord chat room Cherry picked from a list with 4 others elements that I agree with, but the first two are terrible. Twitter is getting more and more closed (you can't see some stuff without being logged in now) and for Discord you have to create an account to see the content. Both are not free software. Reading stuff around free software shouldn't…

Although I agree, you can read content on Discord without an account. All you need to do is enter a username.

In this context, free Slack is worse than Discord. Despite that, some OSS still use Slack.

Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)

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post #13

> Open source in 2021 looks like: > Engagement on Twitter > Official Discord chat room Cherry picked from a list with 4 others elements that I agree with, but the first two are terrible. Twitter is getting more and more closed (you can't see some stuff without being logged in now) and for Discord you have to create an account to see the content. Both are not free software. Reading stuff around free software shouldn't…

Well if you want to reach lots of developers, you have to be where they are, and they're on Twitter and Discord—for better or worse. :shrug:

They're just the noisy developers who haven't found their hyperproductive niche. Once you've found your perfect tech stack, you just keep using it and stop making noise about it, and then your voice no longer gets counted. But that doesn't matter, because the work gets done, the code goes out, and the money comes in.
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