Statocles

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Statocles - A static blog generator in Perl.

This site is a static blog, so on the server there is just plain old HTML, the software that generates the pages is on my laptop, not on the server. Static content is efficient and fast, and I would suggest more secure. There is not code (beyond web-server) that people can attack.

Previously I have used Hugo which like Statocles runs locally and produces static content you upload to your server. Unlike Statocles, Hugo is written in Go, and as this website is all about Perl, I wanted to use a Perl based tool.

Wanting a Perl based tool, I search CPAN for "blog generator" and explored. Statocles had been favourited 26 times, a lot more than the other options, so I focused on it.

Statocles feels familiar to Hugo, there is a command line tool that helps you manage the content and serve a local version of the site. The last update was April 2020 (Aprils fools day made me a little nervous I confess) but I installed it locally and all worked pretty much out of the box.

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