#542: Zensical - a modern static site generator

If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other projects. But when MKDocs 2.0 took a direction that would break Material and 300 ecosystem plugins, Martin went back to the drawing board. The result is Zensical: A new static site generator with a Rust core, differential builds in milliseconds instead of minutes, and a migration path designed to bring the whole community along. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code talkpython26 Talk Python Courses Links from the show Guest Martin Donath : github.com Zensical : zensical.org Material for MkDocs : squidfunk.github.io Getting Started : zensical.org Github pages : docs.github.com Cloudflare pages : pages.cloudflare.com Michaels Example : gist.github.com Material for MkDocs : zensical.org gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes : gohugo.io a sense of size of the project : blobs.talkpython.fm Zensical Spark : zensical.org Watch this episode on YouTube : youtube.com Episode deep-dive : talkpython.fm/542 Episode transcripts : talkpython.fm Theme Song: Developer Rap 🥁 Served in a Flask 🎸 : talkpython.fm/flasksong ---== Don't be a stranger ==--- YouTube : youtube.com/@talkpython Bluesky : @talkpython.fm Mastodon : @talkpython@fosstodon.org X.com : @talkpython Michael on Bluesky : @mkennedy.codes Michael on Mastodon : @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Michael on X.com : @mkennedy

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#542: Zensical - a modern static site generator is an episode from Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers by Michael Kennedy.

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This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

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