Static Site Generators: Why am I literally dreaming about these? Because I am a dorky nerd, apparently.

Last night, something made me start researching Static Site Generators. It was likely a combination of things: Seeing them mentioned here and there on Mastodon and some tech sites Encountering a few SSGs being used on blogs I come across That feeling of wanting to move on from the bloated and now AI-enabled WordPress resurfacing again (any Matt Mullenweg post is bound to trigger this) So last night I started looking into them as a possible new way forward on my olde blog. I came across a few I’d heard of before: Hugo Jekyll Eleventy And a lot more I’d never heard of. There are a lot of SSGs out there. It got late, I went to bed. And dreamed. Of Static Site Generators. In the dream I was somehow using an SSG that was a physical thing, a kind of vinyl (?) curtain with code on it. There was a programmer with me to my left and I remember having to lift the corner of the curtain for him to see the code written there. He was apparently operating three animated figures, one of which was a…