Site Revamp

I tried using Ark but it is not working well. No idea why. Anyway I can’t sit and debug the reasons. I need to find a different way to do something similar.

The easiest solution is of course to use some form of GitHub Pages and templates but don’t feel like using a Jekyll-based system. The Glitch template using 11ty also looked interesting but worried if I will need to learn JavaScript if any issues come up.

I tried out the barf static site builder and I liked its simplicity. But my main idea is blog with emacs itself.

This site is now generated using my own hacky static site generator. It is inspired almost wholly by barf and I developed a similar shell script from scratch. I am 100% sure that I won’t be able to understand the sed statements I have used in the script by next week (which itself is super optimistic). Regardless, this is mine. Handrolling my own static site generator with all the heavy lifting done by Emacs has been fun. Hacking around with Emacs and orgmode is super fun. I am writing via denote and using org-publish to create the initial HTMLs. I could have directly used those but doing some post-processing with the shell script.

I changed to directly writing in orgmode and exporting HTML, no more postprocessing.

There is scope for a lot of extension and I need to think about how to do that.

’Til Later