What Static Sites Still Teach Us

Build-time thinking is a discipline, not a limitation. A few things static sites get right by default.

Constraints as clarity

A static site cannot ask the server to decide. Everything must be known at build time. That constraint clarifies what actually belongs on the page.

Fast is a design decision

When every kilobyte ships, you start noticing the ones that do not.

The archive matters

A static site is unusually good at being an archive. URLs stay, pages remain, and the whole thing can be read without a runtime.