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Discussion on: One thing led to another and I built my own static site generator today

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Matthew Daly

That's how I wound up with my current site. In late 2014 I was using Octopress, which was fine, but I don't really use Ruby professionally and so I thought ideally I'd be using a Node.js solution. On a whim I rolled a very simple proof of concept for a Grunt plugin to convert Markdown and Handlebars templates into HTML, and put together a Yeoman generator to set it up with some other plugins. It went so well that in early 2015 I switched over to it and have been using it since, though lately I have been considering switching to Gatsby.