Static doesn't mean boring

“Static site” makes people picture something plain: a few pages, no interactivity, done. But nearly everything on this site — the search, the theme toggle, the multi-level nav, the table of contents — runs without a server anywhere in the picture. It’s all just HTML, CSS, and a little JavaScript, generated once and served as flat files.

The constraint turns out to be a feature. When there’s no server to reach for, you end up finding the simplest version of a feature that actually works, and simplest usually means faster too.