trying to move off of my garbage python script static site generator back onto a real product, and i’m trying out zola but apparently the idea that you could want prose both before and after your list of blog posts is just completely unprecedented. it’s got a strict hierarchy, if you want to have template logic like "put the list of blog posts here" it needs to be in the template HTML and not in the content markdown, and there's no clear way for the content to define a slot that the template can put the blog posts into, so if you want to have some prose above your list of blog posts and more prose below, you have to resort to crimes. why is it so hard to make a static site generator that behaves normally and doesn’t make me contort my stuff into weird shapes, i feel like this literally worked fine when i was still using github pages. fuck, am i gonna have to install ruby again to get a working jekyll setup? is there really no other static site generator that isn't a flaming pile of trash?


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i really recommend 11ty still. its main flaw is that it can be a bit hard to learn, but it’s unopinionated and very flexible and generally seems normal. it’s what i’m building my blog with