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No idea. I don't know what Jekyll is; I'm not really a web developer and I'm in the early stages of learning Rails.

I read that talk by Maciej Ceglowski and it made me really want to build something of my own, so I did.

There are probably other solutions out there that do the same thing, but I really wanted to roll up my sleeves, write something, and fling it out into the ether to see what happened.

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You might find Jekyll and similar stuff interesting - basically, software for building fully static websites from a similar starting point. I don't know that it's strictly necessary, as the real problem is front-end bulk.

But yes, diving in and making something that works is a good impulse.

Great response. Too many people criticize someone's work comparing it to similar stuff that's been around since just before the dinosaurs went extinct with responses like "what makes yours better?"

It doesn't. It's just something you made. Use it or not. Nobody cares.

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