title: New site generator date: 2025-04-14 13:15:40 -0300 lastmod: 2025-04-22 11:09:52 -0300 tags: ssg, bssg slug: new-site-generator image: image_caption: description:
When Stefano announced his own static site generator, the BSSG, I couldn't let it pass and went to give it a try and start to plan my site's migration, from hugo to BSSG.
First impressions: it's awesome! Simple but complete. It comes with all available themes in the package and it even comes with a tool to generate a page to sample all of them!
What I like: it's not something new but I find the commands to create and edit
content very useful. I'm used to open a vim session and work from there but the
ability to enter ./bsgg.sh edit <filename> or ./bssg.sh post and it simply
asks for the title and opens the default editor. Simple. And when you save and
close your file, it rebuilds itself to update your content.
What I want (not need): the admin interface. Not for me, since I was born in the command line, but for the common folk that I want to convert to the simple world of static sites.
So far, it's one of the best tools that I came across :)
OBS. One issue that I found is that when using pandoc to render the pages, the
standard list format is not rendered in the HTML. It works with commonmark.