#542: Zensical - a modern static site generator
Talk Python To Me
Michael Kennedy
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donoth's work. |
| 0:05.1 | His material for MK Docs powers docs for Fast API, UV, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other projects. |
| 0:13.4 | When MK Docs 2.0 took a direction that would break material in 300 ecosystem plugins, |
| 0:19.1 | Martin went back to the drawing board. |
| 0:20.8 | The result is Zenzical, a new static site generator with a rust core, |
| 0:25.6 | differential builds in milliseconds instead of minutes, and a migration path designed to bring |
| 0:30.2 | the whole community along. |
| 0:31.7 | This is Talk PythonMe, episode 542, recorded February 17th, 2006. |
| 0:41.3 | Talk Python a me, yeah, we ready to roll. Upgrading the code, no fear of getting old. |
| 0:43.3 | They sink in the air. |
| 0:45.3 | New frameworks in sight, geeky rap on deck. |
| 0:47.3 | Quark crew, it's time to unite. |
| 0:49.3 | We started in pyramid, cruising old school lanes, had that stable base, yes, sir. Welcome to Talk Python and me, the number one Python podcast for developers and data scientists. |
| 0:59.3 | This is your host, Michael Kennedy. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm a PSF fellow who's been coding for over 25 years. |
| 1:05.2 | Let's connect on social media. |
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| 1:33.2 | This episode is brought you by Century. |
| 1:35.6 | You know Century for the air monitoring, but they now have logs too. |
| 1:39.0 | And with Century, your logs become way more usable, interleaving into your error reports to enhance debugging |
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