How to simplify your life by embracing static site generation
summary
Argues that static sites can feel dynamic by showing concrete builds: a beer-club site generated with Jekyll and deployed to GitHub Pages, a client doc site, a JSON search index that loads asynchronously with a Google fallback, and a comment workflow using a tiny service called pool pulled into the build by an automated task. Notes the surprising ecosystem size (about 274 now 292 generators), invokes the baked not fried maxim, and reports lower cost, faster responses and practical, repeatable deployments.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:45Time has changed
- 7:12What is dynamic
- 9:30Baked Dont Fry
- 10:41Static site generation
- 12:40Enterprise compliance
- 14:36Generators
- 16:23Dependencies
- 18:02JavaScript
- 20:11Automation
- 21:07No sweaty palms
- 22:11Hosting
- 23:18GitHub Pages
- 24:45Deployment
- 26:44Simplicity
- 29:25Search
- 31:57Inline search
- 34:57Comments
- 36:13How timely comments should be
- 36:53How the forum works
- 38:27Automated build infrastructure
- 39:20Post poster form
- 39:53JSON file
- 41:35Strapline
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