I've finally gotten around to porting this blog over to Zola. I've been running on Jekyll for years now, after originally conceiving this blog in Middleman (and PHP initially). But time catches up with everything, and the friction of maintaining Ruby dependencies eventually got to me. The Speed I can't stress this enough — Zola is fast. Not "for a static site generator" fast. Just fast. My old Jekyll setup needed a good few seconds to rebuild after a change. Zola builds in milliseconds. The entire site rebuilds almost before I can release the key. It's not critical for a site that gets updated 5 times a year, but it's still impressive. No Dependencies This is the big one. Every time you leave a project alone for a few months and come back, you know it's not just going to magically work. The gem versions drift, Bundler gets confused, and suddenly you're down a rabbit hole of version conflicts. The only reason all our Jekyll projects were reasonably easy to work with was locking onto…
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