> Might be true until you need to create those lovely RSS feeds by hand…

There are other options. I know for example that there was an extension for Pandoc that did it for you.

Edit: https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss

Which is SSG again, albeit with a more limited scope.

For me the issue is that Jekyll is pretty terrible, and I guess something is iffy with ruby somehow? I don't really know or want to find out, I just want to publish my little blog.

I think I was never able to keep Jekyll working for more than six months before it broke down beyond repair.

Today there's also gojekyll (which is a single binary).

https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll

Yea, me too. If I follow the advice of GitHubs dependabot screaming about exploits in the markdown renderer, then it breaks 100%. I just had to silence it.

That's actually pretty easy too. Take a look at an RSS file. There's a reason it's called really simple syndication. Adding another entry to an RSS file with your text editor is dead simple.

Added friction means less writing, in my experience. But that depends in his often you update your site, I guess. I'm bound to believe that more friction means less updates.

I suppose if I were posting 5 times a day rather than 5 times a month doing the below would get tedious,

    <item>
      <title>It's not that hard</title>
      <link>http://www.superkuh.com/this-link-doesnt-exist</link>
      <description>This is an example of how quickly I can add a new item to my RSS feed.</description>
    </item>

Or if you wanted to syndicate via RSS rather than just linking, which frankly reads more like an SEO move than one intended for the benefit of human eyeballs...