Improving on my static site generator
By Andres • 2026-05-23
Introduction
So, after writing my static site generator in Odin some weeks ago, as stated there, I made it intentionally minimal, leaving some features out.
It is now a good time to start improving on this project, to make it more robust. Because it can still be minimal but also be more complete.
Here's a list of what I've been thinking about working on, in no particular order:
- [ ] Simple CLI (ssg new post "title", ssg serve, etc.)
- [ ] Excerpts on homepage
- [ ] Correct directory manipulation on Windows, macOS and Linux
- [ ] Posts page
- [ ] RSS feed support
- [ ] Tags
Interestingly enough, I very recently started using Windows again, after installing Windows 11 on my Thinkpad. It deffinitely is a weird experience after more than 10 years daily driving Linux, but that is a topic for another time. The thing is, when using windows on my laptop I thought about working again on my SSG, and here we are. So, one of the most important things to start working on is making sure the program can correctly handle a directory structure in an os-independent manner. It has to work on all Windows, macOS, Linux, and even others...