Drew DeVault shares his experience migrating his 15-year-old blog from Hugo to Zine, a new alpha static site generator. The switch was motivated by Hugo's growing complexity, breaking changes, and its adoption of AI-assisted (vibe-coded) development. Zine's SuperHTML templating approach is praised for using valid HTML5, though the Scripty language and SuperMD feel half-baked. The migration involved porting nearly 400 posts, cleaning up canonical URLs, and importing old Blogspot content. Despite Zine being alpha software with stability issues, the author is betting on its improvement.
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