This probably doesn’t apply to nearly everyone in the target demographic, but the connection to me seems pretty clear.
I like computers. Static site generators are neat; conceptually they are clean, they ask for almost no infrastructure for your deployed site, are performant as heck, all of that.
I also have ADHD. One extra step can be the difference between a task ever getting done or not.
I also enjoy writing, and would like to do it as often as inspiration strikes.
If I look at my posting history, there are some clear periods where I happily post a lot, and then there are the other times.
- The former are periods where I am using something where I can write and publish a piece of work entirely from my phone, or a browser tab lazily opened and then closed.
- The latter are those periods where I am relying solely on an SSG, where publishing usually minimally involves creating a file, writing in it, running a server process to preview the result as I write, calling it done at some point, then running some kind of generate and upload process, as well as committing to version control.
I’ll note too that “well you can always write a draft in a note and then do the publishing work later” doesn’t help, at all — it hasn’t made anything simpler, that’s actually adding a step.
We want to reduce the cycle time as much as possible. Giving yourself aliases and shortcuts to make the necessary steps involved in publishing with SSGs closer to hand is great, but for me at least, the results speak for themselves :)
