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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Middleman and Static Site Generators