❝ Static Sites Enable a Good Time Travel Experience

“my solution makes time travel to (almost) any given moment in time a two-command operation (git checkout with the right commit hash and @11ty/eleventy serve to serve a dev server).”

— hamatti, Static Sites Enable a Good Time Travel Experience

One of the many reasons, I am happy I’ve stuck to using Hugo, I guess.

Dynamic blogs are nostalgia traps. You want to see your site as it was in 2012? Good luck finding that old snapshot on the Wayback Machine, if it even exists. Even if you do, it will likely be a patchwork of missing images, broken links, and outdated plugins.

Juha nails it: with static sites and git, you don’t have to pray to the SaaS gods or dig through some arcane database. Two commands—git checkout and your dev server—and you’re staring at your site as it was, badge overload and all.

Static sites enable a good time travel experience

A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.

https://hamatti.org