Middleman and Static Site Generators (Changelog Interviews #169)

Thomas Reynolds, the creator of Middleman, joined the show to talk about the history of static site generators, how he got into open-source, his love for Go, and what’s to come in Middleman v4.

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Show Notes:

• Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
• staticmatic/staticmatic
• My Weird Ruby « Thomas Reynolds
• Middleman: Upgrading to v4
• hamstergem/hamster
• egonSchiele/contracts.ruby
• bhollis (Ben Hollis)
• karlfreeman (Karl Freeman)
• Arcovion (Eliott Appleford)
• People · Middleman
• Pixi.js - 2D webGL renderer with canvas fallback
• Reach any screen. API-first CMS for multi-device publishing - Contentful
• Netlify: The premium hosting service for modern static websites

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