The author, who uses a static site generator daily, is starting to think that manually writing HTML is easier due to the complexities of setting up the generator on new machines. They describe the challenges of debugging programming language installations, managing package ecosystems, and deployment models. They suggest that maintaining a website as a folder of HTML files is simpler and more efficient, highlighting tools like Emacs’ nxml mode and tpope’s ragtag. The author argues in favor of static data over dynamic code for long-term ease of maintenance. This perspective arose from a complaint on social media.
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