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Life & fun · April 19, 2012

Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

<p>Few months ago, <a href="http://laktek.com/2011/11/17/why-and-how-i-revamped-my-blog">I switched this blog</a> from Wordpress to Jekyll.

Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites launched on April 19, 2012 with 91 votes, #20 of 446 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Punch is a website builder that uses Jekyll to generate static sites from locally-prepared content. It allows developers to build and test websites offline before publishing them to hosting services like Amazon S3. The tool eliminates server-side complexity, reducing security and performance concerns while enabling simple deployment workflows for modern web projects.

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Few months ago, I switched this blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. "> <meta name="og:description" content=" Few months ago, I switched this blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. "> <meta name="twitter:description" content=" Few months ago, I switched this blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. "> Few months ago, I switched this blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. I love how Jekyll allows me to prepare everything locally and simply publish when it's ready. There's no server-side logic involved, which means I can host the whole blog in a S3 bucket. Also, there's no more worries on mundane issues like security, performance or database corruptions. I wanted to have this freedom and control in any site that I would…from laktek.com

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