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Prompted by Tollef, moving to Hugo, I investigated a replacement blog engine. The former site used Wordpress which is just overhead - my blog doesn't need to be generated on every view, it doesn't need the security implications of yet another website login and admin interface either.

The blog is static, so I've been looking at static generators. I didn't like the look of Hugo and wanted something where the syntax was familiar - so either Jinja2 or ReST.

So, I've chosen Pelican with the code living in a private git repo, naturally. I wanted a generator that was supported in Jessie. I first tried nikola but it turns out that nikola in jessie has syntax changes. I looked at creating backports but then there is a new upstream release which adds a python module not yet in Debian, so that would be an extra amount of work.

Hopefully, this won't flood planet - I've gone through the RSS content to update timestamps but the URLs have changed.