Paul Stamatiou ( and I share the same feelings about Jekyll: Relative to other static site generators, it’s one of the less convenient options.) To use it, you’ll also need to set up a Ruby development environment, and extending it with your own shortcodes requires some Ruby knowledge. (Jekyll 4 makes some speed improvements, and you can also enable incremental builds with jekyll serve -i, but you’ll still need to do full builds to pick up new posts. One of Jekyll’s pain points is its build speed. It’s also pretty easy to customize if you want to make your own theme. It’s similar to an Apple product: a little opinionated, but if you follow its guidelines, it just works. As the “OG” static site generator, it has an easy learning curve and a moderately active community. I’ve used Jekyll on this blog for the past four years. I tried out Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Next, Zola, and Eleventy. That last part is especially interesting, and it’s what I want to write about today.

I cleaned up old posts, got a better domain, and experimented with static site generators.

This blog is now a few years old, so I felt it was time to do some housekeeping.

Gem install jekyll freezes