Hastie is a static site generator, it processes a folder of markdown text files, applies a template, and generates an HTML site.

To use Hastie:

1. Create your content in markdown organized by directory.
2. Specify templates to use in hastie.toml
3. Run Hastie to smash the two together, output to output/
4. Upload and serve.

Install using pip

python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/mkaz/hastie

See the docs site in this repo for documentation.

# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/mkaz/hastie
cd hastie

# install dependencies
uv sync

# build docs site
cd docs
uv run python ../hastie/main.py

# serve site
python3 -m http.simple --directory output/

Hastie started as a Go project, but rewritten to Python. See golang branch for archived code.

Why? I switched my mkaz.blog site over to static for easier maintenance and looked briefly at Pelican but it does too much. Domain name aside, my site isn't really a blog in the reverse-chronological order of posts sense; it is a collection of pages in categories.

Pelican has a lot of requirements around dates, and template types. It generates numerous additional pages for author, tags, and other things I don't really want.

So I dusted off Hastie which does exactly what I want, but since I haven't coded in Go in awhile, I switched it over to Python.

The project is licensed under the MIT LICENSE.