https://jvq.net/tags/build-tooling/ Recent content in Build Tooling on JVQ.net: Just Very Quick Hugo en-us Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/i-ran-six-static-site-generators-on-the-same-400-posts.-build-time-wasnt-the-differentiator./ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/i-ran-six-static-site-generators-on-the-same-400-posts.-build-time-wasnt-the-differentiator./ <p>Every static site generator comparison opens with build times, and every one of them is measuring the thing that matters least. I took the same corpus, four hundred markdown files with frontmatter, images, tags and a couple of taxonomies, and pushed it through six generators to see what actually differed.</p> <p>Build time differed by more than an order of magnitude. It changed nothing about which one I would pick.</p> <h2 id="the-setup">The setup</h2> <p>Same content directory, copied six times. Same images, same frontmatter schema, same target output: a paginated index, per-post pages, tag archives, an RSS feed and a sitemap. Minimal theming, because theme complexity dominates build time in most generators and I wanted to compare the engines rather than my CSS.</p>