Really sad to hear this. I hope GitHub Pages supports an alternative JS-based SSG framework.
Nextjs and Gatsby are good candidates here and most likely will plug into Github's existing asset framework.
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Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#102What do people use besides Jekyll?
I was just researching static site generators and the ones that piqued my interest were: * Hugo * Eleventy * Zola Note that I excluded ones that output SPAs since I just want plain old hand-written HTML. Jekyll’s biggest hurdle for me was installing a Ruby environment.
I should have added that static site generators are ranked by popularity (i.e. stars) here:
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can help change that situation by joining the million or so Fediverse users or improving the platform instead of publicly dismissing it because it doesn't have a billion dollars in funding. It's quite easy to put together a feed with an update a minute if you really want that much activity.
Why would I do that?
Ladies and Gentlemen, the network lock-in effect in action.
Humour aside, you would do it if you wanted to encourage movement of the closed silos. It's not likely that your irl friends and family will make the jump anytime soon, but getting dev communities to make the switch is a much more tractable problem.
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#104Sounds like Frank grew tired of the project a bit and was happy to just let it be since it's mostly feature complete. Should have probably looked for a new maintainer, I'm pretty sure lots of people would have been happy to take it. And now Frank has passed away; the remaining core members (are there any?) should look for new heirs.
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#105One 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…
Can you share a link? Would like to see.
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#106Personally I don't find static site generators worth the effort to learn or keep up-to-date as versions inevitably come. I end up just writing my own for each site in 1-200 lines of Python. It's normally just a markdown library and a template engine wrapped with a file system walker. Here's an example: https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master... . It's longer than usual since it embeds parts of th…
At that point why wouldnt you just write HTML? That would last basically forever and it's I think less hassle than hacking together a blog renderer.
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#107Less than 2 weeks after Frank passed away.
Not very classy.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one is on Mastodon or Matrix.
Im on both. Mastodon has a busy busy community making the future of RSS and podcast feeds that I'm a big fan of, super welcoming people. Golang matrix has saved my bacon too many times to count, also great folks there. The best part about these, is that though we step off topic sometimes, generally everyone is really helpful and focused on the general subject matter. It's not endless gossip, in jokes and memes, these…
Can you tell me which are these communities on Mastodon working on RSS and podcast feeds? I happen to be doing work related to both, currently, and would like to check them out.
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh interesting, that's a Rust-based SSG. Definitely something nice about a single binary and not needing a full language runtime installed.
> a single binary Well, one program to generate the site, and then an implicit assumption that you'll use another program (your Web browser) at some point to verify the output. If you're into cutting out prereqs when you can, why not cut out one more?
...what's offensive about this?
Re: RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
#110Hi, original Jekyll "core team" (if it could be called that) member here - just wanted to say thanks for writing this up, and I had no idea about the current status of the project or that one of the maintainers recently passed away. That all being said: I think it's ok for OSS projects to "pass on" - and hopefully be replaced by better ones! I wish we had a better way of recognizing this for projects or talking about…
Closely related, I wish we had a better way of saying a library or product is now feature-complete. We use recent commit activity as a proxy of viability, but all of that churn could just as easily be an indication of immaturity. It's okay for tools to achieve their objectives and just live on as stable code with maintenance releases as needed. To my mind, Jekyll is feature-complete. The only changes I've needed to m…
Couldn’t agree more.
Have been using Jekyll for years for all manner of sites and the most beautiful feature is that I’ve barely changed anything.
Even when I did recently update a few sites to new versions (mainly just because I was making some changes and figured why not) nothing broke.