A page that does not change, cataloguing forty centuries of the word it shares a name with. Type into it and your own words render as a typeface made of live noise — and now that's every word on the page, not just the headline. Press the button and even the words hold still.
Semantic Domain: On the Relationship Between Static Analysis and Type Theory
Some months ago, Ravi Mangal sent me an email with a very interesting question, which I reproduce in part below: The question that has be...
Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs
The Geometry of Type
The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability. Sidebar information lists the designer and foundry, the year of release and the different weights and styles available, while feature boxes explain the origins and best uses for each typeface, such as whether it is suitable for running text or as a display font for headlines. To help the reader spot each typeface in the wider world, the full character set is shown, and the best letters for identification are highlighted.
jackyzha0/quartz
🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites
Close to the metal: web design and the browser
Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and modern backend systems; when at the end of the day, browsers still only need static HTML content to interpret.
Static Site Generators Reviewed: Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, Hugo — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Mathias Biilmann Christensen will look at four popular static website generators — Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, Hugo — in far more detail. This should give you a great starting point for finding the right one for your project. A lot of other ones are out there, but the ones Mathias chose for this article represent the different trends that dominate the landscape today. While static websites have been around since the beginning of the Internet, modern static website generation is just getting started. Use, share, improve, enjoy. Welcome to modern static website technology!
Static site generators
I’ve been looking for a decent static site generator to build a simple, 10-page-or-so documentation site, and I’m failing. Here are some notes on my journey, to serve as a warning sign to future travellers, and thoughts on what static site generators could do better.
depp - No frills static page generator for Git repositories
No frills static page generator for Git repositories
Top Ten Static Website Generators
A list of the top ten static generators for building your next website
How to Build a Personal Webpage from Scratch - Alex Rutar
An opinionated introduction to designing and deploying a modern static webpage.
BFTML/docs/motivations.md at main · npetrangelo/BFTML
Blazingly Fast Text Markup Language. Standards designed for web apps. Browser implementation in Rust. - npetrangelo/BFTML
Modern Font Stacks
System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.
Fonts In Use
A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.
This is really exciting to see! I think some magical things can happen when we "free" our links from static pages and let them intermingle in a social knowledge medium like Semble.
Osbert Lancaster
@semble.so I'm experimenting with creating a Collection of links and resources that would normally be in the show notes of my podcast episode. Not sure it makes sense to include a guest's profile (i.e. university profile page or Bluesky profile) as a Card. What do you think?
excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it
