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10 April, 2018
Today I saw a question on twitter which I have seen a few times before. It was posed by the rather excellent and lovely Drew McLellan.
What do you think the best use cases are for a static site generator? — Drew McLellan
There were some interesting responses, but this cheeky and playful response from the irrepressible Bruce Lawson jumped out at me:
Making static sites — Bruce Lawson
Thanks Bruce. Problem solved.
Bruce has a knack of cutting to the chase, and this made me smile. But it nudged at one of my trigger phrases, which Drew’s follow up question then prodded further:
Read on...Ok, so when/why would you make a static site? — Drew McLellan
Like a magpie, I spotted these, thought "oooh shiny" and stashed them on my links page. Not blogged, but stashed.
A clean and simple writing experience for those who like to write in Markdown. Including instant preview as you type, CSS-based themes, PDF and HTML exports.
https://github.com/indigotree/atlas
I have a Hugo boilerplate of my own, but this looks like it might replace it. Lots of useful utilities and solutions to the taks you often find yourself doing on a new Hugo build project. Plus useful tooling for working with Netlify hosting too.
https://plainjs.com/javascript/
Plainjs.com offers some useful references fo approaching some very common tasks in JavaScript, including lots of things that we often needlessly turn to jQuery for.
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19 April, 2018
Missing what looks like an excellent day 1 at @jsheroes today, but scuttling as quickly as I can from @smashingconf… https://t.co/lvrjDQ7XOX
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18 April, 2018
Go team Web! The community at work, and a great response from the folks at @Wikimedia https://t.co/HqXV20kRGl
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18 April, 2018
This is fascinating. Congratulations to the team who delivered this. Making such changes when the content comes fro… https://t.co/CsPrYCQwdw