title: One week with BSSG date: 2025-04-22 10:39:48 -0300 lastmod: 2025-04-22 11:23:03 -0300 tags: bssg, self hosting, slug: one-week-with-bssg image: image_caption: description:
After a week that I published my site made with BSSG, here are my impressions:
Workflow
I'm loving this workflow. It's simple, concise, fast and helps me on focusing in creating and writing than setting things up.
The commands covers all user cases and are very well documented. There's almost no need to use the site to get things running.
Theming
Coming from wordpress and then hugo, the theming options for BSSG are like a breath of fresh air. The themes are just CSS files. That's it. Simple and efficient. If you want something very specific, you can use a custom.css file (just set it on the config file) and you are done.
Wordpress? Download, activate and pray for it not to break your site.
Hugo? Download (or git submodule clone), set it on the config and watch while everything have to be reconfigured to accommodate the new theme.
EDIT: It appears beautiful on text browsing :)
Everything else
Another thing that I liked about BSSG is that it automatically generates a main menu, with sub pages if you want (I didn't tested it yet) and the RSS and tags files. Why I'm pointing this? Because I'm recalling my experience with hugo, which has very specific setting for the most basic stuff.
Final thoughts
I recommend it? Absolutely. It's for everybody? Probably. Just give it a try ;)