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title = "Shades of Blue"
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The italien jazz spirit with the heart in the alps.

content using the provided templates.  
Thanks to [zero-copy](https://serde.rs/lifetimes.html#borrowing-data-in-a-derived-impl) deserialisation
and the [Ramhorns](https://github.com/maciejhirsz/ramhorns) templating engine,
it renders the whole site in milliseconds, possibly more than
[20 times](https://github.com/grego/ssg-bench) faster than other generators like Hugo.

It's made for easy setup and use. A static site generator should be a no brainer.
It uses [mustache](https://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html) templates with extremely minimal
and obvious syntax (like 7 rules!), providing the necessary building blocks
to let you focus on your content.

## Features
* Powerful plugin system
* Themes
* Image gallery generation
* [CommonMark](https://commonmark.org) markdown with tables and footnotes for content
* Automatic syntax highlighting using [cmark-syntax](https://github.com/grego/cmark-syntax)
  (with a possibility of turning LaTeX formulas into [MathML](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/MathML))
* Customizable taxonomies (like categories or tags)
* Pagination
* Breadcrumbs
* Asset colocation
* Table of contents with access to all of the site data
* Automatic sitemap, Atom and RSS feed generation

## Why not _`blades`_?
Unlike other monolithic generators, Blades is modest in its scope. All it does is generating your site.
It do