unrelated probably, but it made me realize how I don't really see Hugo/Jekyll type websites anymore.
How do you even know? Don't those both just generate static html?
Footer. also Jekyll/Hugo sites use generator so you can mostly find it in the meta generator tag.
Next.js sites are also a super easy find like this.
You can trivially remove it e.g. `disableHugoGeneratorInject = true` in `config.toml`.
I build my own with Jinja2 templates my custom python script + mistune library to parse markdown to html, and a YAML file in similar format to Hugo (the previous generator i used to use)
I found building my own custom one with python3, much more freeing in all sorts of interesting ways, I also exposed the static site generator with a FastAPI based API to auto build my website from my notes, my cooking recipes, database records, financials, git commits, etc to build me a private protected website (via nginx auth) from anywhere, whether via sending a text message to my telegram bot, or running a Shortcuts command on my iPad, or just directly running a command from my terminal.
It took barely a day to setup, and allows me to run interesting custom extensions in all sorts of interesting ways, and builds me a personal website curated to my interest, where the primary viewer is supposed to be me. and it exposes a public barebones website with barely any content for everyone else.
One of these days I think i’ll expose more of it to the world.
I see plenty of blogs generated from Markdown with tools like that.
Has something overtaken Hugo and Jekyll in that space?
If you like JS/TS, then Astro.
I maintain a blog on Hugo but also host a couple of Astro ones. I think Hugo is great but to my eyes at least Astro has more active development behind it, and I also enjoy it more (probably because I know Typescript more than golang)
I just use mkdocs for everything.
Have you found a decent bare bones starter theme? I've been using MkDocs Material, and I find the theme too complicated (HTML etc) - hoping to find a super simple one that looks decent - plain - and is a good base for theming / styling. Thanks & take care.
I use the readthedocs theme: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/choosing-your-theme/#readt...
Not sure if that fits the bill for you, but I like it.