In Defence of the Boring Web

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  1. KaTeX

    Fast math typesetting for the web.

  2. CodeRabbit

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  3. no-style-please

    A (nearly) no-CSS, fast, minimalist Jekyll theme.

    Do it! I'm also currently migrating my old Wordpress blog to markdown in Jekyll using a minimalist theme [1]. I'm liking it so far.

    [1] https://github.com/riggraz/no-style-please

  4. Publii

    The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.

  5. site

    Jumping on the bandwagon of the guy that jumped on the bandwagon, because you mentioned potentially re-doing your own code at some point so might be interested: my personal site [0] looks very much like this (and is also written in Rust), but uses the comrak [1] crate to convert blog posts from Markdown to HTML on the fly before formatting with the header/footer theme. Using comrak lets you write in-line HTML (so you're not stuck with only Markdown syntax if you want to do something fancier like code blocks or ), and the whole site is <100 LoC, including route definitions.

    It handled the one potential HN hug-of-death event I've had without issues while running on the smallest DO droplet offered, and has basically been issue-free since I got it up and running.

    [0] https://github.com/quietlychris/site

    [1] https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak

  6. comrak

    CommonMark + GFM compatible Markdown parser and renderer

    Jumping on the bandwagon of the guy that jumped on the bandwagon, because you mentioned potentially re-doing your own code at some point so might be interested: my personal site [0] looks very much like this (and is also written in Rust), but uses the comrak [1] crate to convert blog posts from Markdown to HTML on the fly before formatting with the header/footer theme. Using comrak lets you write in-line HTML (so you're not stuck with only Markdown syntax if you want to do something fancier like code blocks or ), and the whole site is <100 LoC, including route definitions.

    It handled the one potential HN hug-of-death event I've had without issues while running on the smallest DO droplet offered, and has basically been issue-free since I got it up and running.

    [0] https://github.com/quietlychris/site

    [1] https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak

  7. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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