SSGs through the ages: The ‘Reinvention’ era

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Segment Landing Page

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Segment

We make customer data simple.

In 2011, Ian Storm Taylor cofounded Segment, a customer data platform that helps collect, clean, and control customer data. Years later, he created the SSG Metalsmith, which he used to power the Segment technical documentation. Just this week, after a 5-year maintenance mode break, Kevin Van Lierde took over as lead developer and maintainer, and shared his roadmap for future features and patches.

#Web Service Automation #Data Integration #API Tools 40 social mentions
Octopress Landing Page
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Octopress

A static blogging framework for hackers, based on Jekyll
Pricing:
- Open Source
[translated from Traditional Chinese] I think every Octopress user must have such troubles — as the number of articles increases, the speed of file creation becomes slower and slower. This site has grown to 54 articles, and it takes at least one minute to create a file every time.

#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 2 social mentions
Metalsmith Landing Page
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Metalsmith

An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 6 social mentions
Let's Encrypt Landing Page
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Let's Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
Pricing:
- Open Source
Hugo has seen success with corporate customers, including 1Password, Linode Digital.gov, KeyCDN, and Let’s Encrypt, to name just a few. Bjørn Erik Pedersen took over as the lead maintainer in 2015 and continues to lead Hugo’s thriving community.

#Identity And Access Management #Two Factor Authentication #Security & Privacy 311 social mentions
Hexo Landing Page
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Hexo

A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 20 social mentions
Harp Landing Page
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Harp

The static web server with built-in preprocessing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework #Development Tools 1 social mentions
Go Programming Language Landing Page
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Go Programming Language

Go, also called golang, is a programming language initially developed at Google in 2007 by Robert...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Build speed — Jekyll is notoriously slow and building sites. Hugo is written in Go, which is a compiled language and, according to its current leader maintainer, a “perfect match for many of the tasks that Hugo performs”. The result is Hugo’s ability to build tens of thousands of pages in seconds.

#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 292 social mentions
Hugo Landing Page
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Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 354 social mentions
Composer Landing Page
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Composer

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Beau Simensen was using Jekyll to create static sites and hit issues he created pull requests to fix. After months of inactivity on his pull requests, he grew frustrated and set out to build a new SSG. Beau had experience in PHP and thought, “Maybe I could rewrite Jekyll in PHP”. Symfony’s HTTP Kernel SSG could serve as the heart of the SSG, Composer was making waves as a PHP dependency manager, and Twig was a popular PHP templating language. He had all the building blocks he needed. And so, Sculpin was born.

#Development Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework 124 social mentions