Why I Left Medium
> Two different parts of the brain conflicting. When I’m writing, I don’t want to be in code mode.<p>This is one of the reasons why I think static site generators are really in their infancy. He describes Pelican as "Jekyll for Python". This highlights what is wrong. You shouldn't have to decide on a tool based on what language it is written in; you shouldn't need to know what language it is written in.<p>A static site generator should have a very simple folder structure, something like:<p>draft/<p>published/<p>site/<p>templates/<p>That's it. You write markdown files in draft/ and move them to published/ when you're done. The generator runs as a daemon and spits out site/  No config files. No `bundle install` nonsense.