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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
That’s a beauty of a static site generator combined with my workflow of fetching posts from CMS before build time so each commit contains a full snapshot of the website. I say almost because back in the day I wasn’t quite as diligent in commiting every change as I was deploying manually and not through version control automation. A year ago, inspired by Alex Chan’s blog post Taking regular screenshots of my website I set up a GitHub Action that takes a snapshot of my front page once a month to keep a record.
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