Blog Generator

A custom static site generator for my personal website. Used as a replacement for my previous workflow that utilized Hugo with PaperMod. The previous workflow was too slow and annoying for my needs, so I decided to create a lightweight generator that could handle my specific requirements.

The choice to use Kotlin was made because of my familiarity with the language, and I find the JVM to be quite good in terms of stability, so I wouldn't have to worry about the generator breaking due to changes in the language or libraries.

Tech Stack

• Kotlin with kotlinx-html DSL for type-safe HTML generation
• JetBrains Markdown for CommonMark parsing
• Clikt for CLI argument handling
• SnakeYAML for front matter parsing
• Kotlinx Coroutines for asynchronous file I/O
• Webpack for bundling and optimizing static assets

Features

• Markdown to HTML conversion with YAML front matter
• Blog posts and project pages
• RSS Feed and static sitemap generation
• HTML minification and optimization
• Static asset pipeline (CSS, JS, fonts, images)
• Configurable input/output directories via CLI