History

The history of kurama, the SSG, starts quite a while back.

After Bryce graduated college, he dabbled with quite a few things, even getting into blogging.

However, Bryce has a habit of trying things out because of curiosity, and does not really enjoy things with database backends, and during one of those trips, he discovered tools called static site generators, with his first foray into playing with them being a generator called Jekyll.

While he really liked Jekyll, a big problem he noticed was that he couldn't use it everywhere, as he had briefly switched back to Windows from Mac OS after the release of Windows 10, and Jekyll required Ruby, which is not easily installable on Windows.

After some searching, he did find options in Hyde and Pelican, which were both more likely to work across multiple platforms, but he eventualy decided to roll his own solution, so that it would have what he needed and he would be sure that it would have him covered regardless of the platform he used.

In February of 2022, Bryce began working on kurama, which he would later on use to launch his personal website, which would serve as among one of his earliest attempts at providing a way to highlight the page on a website.

Once he had succeeded in creating the site, kurama had gone dormant for a number of years, while Bryce had focused on other things.

Then, in June, 2026, Bryce decided to create a website for his checkbook ledger application, but what he wanted for the site was a bit more complex than kurama could generate at the time and was complicated to do with straight HTML, even if he were to use server side includes.

To handle this, Bryce had decided to continue working on kurama and added in the necessary components, such as:

After adding in these components, Bryce got to work on the new website and kurama was then in the state that is it today and has become yet another tool that Bryce is glad to have written.