While checking out instructions to HexEdit and Reflash my KaiOS phone (definitely don’t have the confidence to do that yet!) I came across a site written with “Zola“, a “Static Site Generator”.

While creating the vast majority of the code for MonstaPro, it made me wonder if there wasn’t an easier way to generate HTML and CSS, even JavaScript (yes: I still spell it with an uppercase “S”!). I was writing all that (easily 10s KLOC) by hand back then…

Written in Rust and configured using TOML (but all actual content you write uses CommonMark) once configured you write templates and “scripts” for those templates, so Zola creates your HTML exactly the way you tell it to. Bloomin’. Genius.

You can even install in on Windows, but you need a Package editor to do so. Go check it out.