Why I chose a static site generator to serve content for this blog

For my first post it feels fitting to explain a decision I made before writing a single word of content: serving this blog from a static site generator instead of a Content Management System (CMS) such as the well-known WordPress, which powers roughly 65% of all sites that use a CMS at the time of writing.

A CMS like WordPress is powerful, but for a personal blog it brings along a database, a server-side runtime and a plugin ecosystem that I simply don’t need. A static site generator takes my content, renders every page ahead of time, and hands me a folder of plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript that can be served from anywhere.