Shite: The little static shite generator from shell

by goranmoomin • 4 years ago

64 12 4 years ago

That is… a rather unfortunate name.

htgb• 4 years ago

Pretty sure it's in jest! I found the opening paragraphs pretty entertaining (and still clear on what the project does btw).

dcow• 4 years ago

Also, I hereby decree that all texsht herein be read in Sean Connery voish.

No, this just got serious again XD

kaashif• 4 years ago

At least it's intentional. From the README:

I don't have to give a shite if this little shite maker fails to make your shite work.

This only makes sense if they know what "give a shite" means, I think.

glouwbug• 4 years ago

its painfully obvious that its a joke

patleeman• 4 years ago

From the readme:

I accidentally restarted blogging after a long haitus. Before I could get words into the cloud, I muddled about with "modern" Static Site Generators. Because WordPress is so last century (or so I told myself). Then I got annoyed by the SSG Jamstack bespoke templating building etc. magic.

I felt the same way when I restarted my blog so I went a similar route, but... lazier. I'm using pandoc with some shell scripts gluing it all together and it works.. pretty well actually.

https://github.com/patleeman/patricklee.nyc

BrandoElFollito• 4 years ago

I tried a few entries from your blog (really interesting btw) and at one point you write

Walking can be distracting in meetings.

Interestingly enough, I have the exact opposite - the more I concentrate on a discussion, the more I have to walk.

This is easy with remote work, I walk in my apartment. People got used to the fact that I suddenly disappear from the video ( a rather good sign :)), I usually do not even realize that I got up.

On the office everyone is seated except for me who is standing up and silently trotting around. Of course I only do it with people who are fine with that.

bradley_taunt• 4 years ago

Reminds me of my recent creation of a Pandoc based SSG that I use for my personal website.

https://pblog.xyz/

cutler• 4 years ago

For all the modern static site generators with their funky Javascript I still find Perl's Template::Toolkit to be the best SSG I've ever used.

dusted• 4 years ago

Static sites..

Combining the worst parts of static site user experience[1] with the worst parts of dynamic site administration[2].

[1] None of the potential benefits of a dynamic site, like searching and interactivity (not that they are always needed, but that IS the few things that dynamic sites are actually good for).

[2] Instead of the end-deliverable files, which are forever and have zero dependencies (like a true static site), you get additional infrastructure dependencies like you do on a dynamic site (your generator tool, simple as it may be, still has more dependencies than zero, it is, at the very least, a dependency in and of itself).

Aleksdev• 4 years ago

Interesting name..

pydry• 4 years ago

It's weird there seem to be about 2-300 static site generators out there, but it's rare that somebody makes one with a decent theme. Even rarer to have a couple.

I find even the most popular ones are often lacking themes. Worse, sometimes they advertise themes but the themes and the SSG dont work together.

When I discovered this I was initially tempted to build my own but then decided I didnt want to be the 301st.

So far ive settled on mkdocs which I like although Ive tried about 5 of the others which I had irritating issues with.

Shite: The little static shite generator from shell

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