Makesite
Dev tools
static site generator
SHOW HN2018
146points
60comments
#275of 2,155 in 2018
Top 13%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, concise code style
From 1 comment
Can’t speak to the usefulness of the code but really admire the style. Very clean, concise and lots of composition. Love it.
whalesalad on HN
Interesting as a learning project
From 1 comment
Writing static site generators is my favourite way of learning a language. Usually covers all the basics, libraries, FS, error checking and so on
adamisntdead on HN
Objections
Counting lines of code is a poor measure of simplicity
From 3 comments
how stupid is to measure code in terms of lines? Make all that a library then you can claim: A static site generator in only 3 lines of Python Measuring lines of codes is…
jitans on HNPlease don't use the number of lines as a metric for simplicity, it really doesn't mean anything
make3 on HNThat's not the point. Trying to squeeze the code in less lines as much possible is not the way to go if you loose clarity. Python coders keep repeting the mantra "less line of…
jitans on HN
Requests
Support Pandoc-flavoured Markdown
From 1 comment
This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown? How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write…
foo101 on HN
Questions
Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown?
From 1 comment
This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown? How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write…
foo101 on HN
Will CommonMark be widely supported in future?
From 1 comment
This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown? How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write…
foo101 on HN
Alternatives named
Hugo
From 1 comment
Hugo is still most convenient, at least for me and my workflow. I just pull it with homebrew, created my theme/template, write blogposts in Emacs org-mode (using ox-hugo), host…
Philipp__ on HN
Jekyll
From 1 comment
Personally, I used Jekyll for a while before switching to a simple Makefile based approach. I write everything in Markdown, which gets compiled via Pandoc, concatenated with a…
charlesdaniels on HN
Pelican
From 1 comment
This is cool, and if I had the time I'd want to do something like this for automatically generating a google-photos style site from my Pictures directory. Also, if you're looking…
mwambua on HN
Makefile with Pandoc
From 1 comment
Personally, I used Jekyll for a while before switching to a simple Makefile based approach. I write everything in Markdown, which gets compiled via Pandoc, concatenated with a…
charlesdaniels on HN
tinysite
From 1 comment
Fellow Jekyll refugee here. I also switched to the Makefile SSG approach for the much faster incremental rebuilds. Parallel speedup with make -j is also nice. My SSG is called…
sigil on HN