????? is my new best friend now.

It's time to find a new static site generator. The only question is, which one?

One of the main reason I've been absent here is due breaking changes in the static site generator Zola, which runs this site. Because it's just a binary installed via the OS package manager, it updates automatically and lately they've been altering the way the config files are structured and the way themes work and the way code syntac highlighting works.

Ordinarily this wouldn't be too much of a problem, and I persevered through a few, just changing my config file accordingly. But then some changes began breaking the theme too and of course the theme author would always be too busy to be bothered fixing the theme, so then I'd be spending time I don't have digging through code just to get the site to build.

So I just wouldn't post.

And now I can't even get it to build at all with the current version. Zola keeps giving me syntax errors. Strangely different errors for local builds to CI builds too. So who knows? I don't need this.

Anyway, enough ranting. I'm jumping ship. I just don't really know which ship to jump to.

My instict is to go with Astro, but I might check out 11ty as well. If anyone else has some suggestions, please get in touch. I just want a static site builder that builds my markdown files and doesn't break every time the developer thinks up a "better" way to do the config or changes syntax on a whim.

Cheers, and hopefully see you soon, on the other side!