Heh. I write my blog posts in org mode, and have a way to get Pelican[1] to read them. It doesn't support executing Babel source blocks on export - I should probably add that feature to my package.[2]

[1]https://getpelican.com/

[2]https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2022/Dec/reintroducing-opel-put...

I used to use org-mode with hugo but it got annoying, I didn't like how I needed to structure my org files, it kind of forced me into some structure. Now I use Zola with Markdown. I'm losing in power but it's so much simpler tbh.

I blog with emacs using the long-abandoned o-blog generator. Anybody have something better? Using the org-mode exporter, with working org-babel and equations and all that. This article doesn't go into the details.

I was in the same boat for many years! Having started using org-mode for my website in 2018 [1] (just add index.org to the path to see the source), it grew into this massive pile of obscure gen and with my limited comfort level with lisp, turned into a scary smelling concoction of dozens of perl/sed/sh scripts that modified the output to fit my needs and have them do something fancy.

But then, really, sat down for about 48 hours on a lonely weekend when everyone was away and wrote a simple static site generator [2] that takes exact same files and produces output that I fully understand e2e, becoming the project I'm most proud of.

There are so many other generators I tried (hugo, jekyll, rails, asciidoctor, org-publish, astro), rolling up your own gives a sense of a stable foundation. Love your website! So clean. One thing that I'm thinking of adding (though I haven't touched my generator that much, I consider it "complete") is the dynamic execution of source code blocks.

[1] https://sandyuraz.com

[2] https://github.com/thecsw/darkness

I mean that 2000 lines, I assume, is going to only be that many lines because it will have 20-50k lines of dependencies under it.

It’s not a bad idea to understand the software you use. A matter of where you want to spend your time. Learning about the org-mode internals is also a valid choice.