I used to use gitbook to generate til.secretGeek.net but it got slower and slower over time, would take 45 mins to build the site… and then the parts I was using were either deprecated or made “premium” - something happened. The “enshittification” set in, basically. If there’s some nice free thing you use that’s too good to be true… wait a few years it will go to muck.
I bit the bullet and wrote my own very minimal static site generator in .net, so the site builds in a few seconds again. Note that I’m not spruiking it for others to use… because if it became popular, no doubt I’d end up enshittifying it too.
I’m now very self conscious of using the word “spruik” (a feature of Australian culture is that we look down on Australian culture… this is called our “cultural-cringe”) - and just saw “spruik” used in a headline in an Australian news story, which shows it is still a very current word here.
I bit the bullet and wrote my own very minimal static site generator in .net, so the site builds in a few seconds again. Note that I’m not spruiking it for others to use… because if it became popular, no doubt I’d end up enshittifying it too.