michaelengen

It's definitely overkill! Fun, though :)

Author here—This is fair criticism, but _for me_, the overhead of a simple static site generator is worth all the benefits I get from being able to e.g., separate my data from my styles and so on.

Author here—Two reasons, mainly. HTML+CSS is a great layout engine, and Eleventy is a good tool for making development more pleasant. While I have a lot of experience using other tools, e.g., LaTeX, I think they're not as well suited to laying out simple documents.