Blogging - General

I am curious what are the current blogging platform / system / setup flavors du jour, especially for FP-savvy folks. My ideal would be something akin to GitHub gists (markdown, syntax highlighting) but more customizable/extensible (e.g. I’d love it if I could write sidenotes, in the style of Tufte) and with typical blog niceties (e.g. RSS support). GitHub Pages seems like a nice hosting solution at least, but at this nebulous stage I am very open to ideas.

you should probably take a look at the Neuron stream!

I think most would suggest hakyll, it's written in Haskell

Definitely taking a look at Hakyll

@Chris Penner I just found https://github.com/ChrisPenner/slick, is this what you use for https://chrispenner.ca/?

Gabriel Lebec said:

Chris Penner I just found https://github.com/ChrisPenner/slick, is this what you use for https://chrispenner.ca/?

Yup! There's an open source starter template here: https://github.com/ChrisPenner/slick-template

I know more than a few other haskell peeps are using it nowadays.

Yeah I like Slick. I have a non-trivial static site built with it here: https://github.com/AJChapman/acthpa-website (see build-site/Main.hs). Generated site is at https://acthpa.org.

I used https://github.com/srid/rib and like it a lot

(the rewrite using it is still a WIP though)

I wrote rib for my blog, and then moved on (climbed the abstraction ladder, really) to neuron. My site looks pretty organized https://www.srid.ca/ - despite it being little more than a flat directory of Markdown files (and no haskell code involved!): https://github.com/srid/srid.ca

I use Hakyll with pandoc-sidenote for https://dpitt.me, but I also just started playing around with org-publish for something like a lab notebook: https://lab.dpitt.me. It's done entirely with org, including publishing. Config looks something like this:

        ("lab-notebook"
         :base-directory "~/src/lab/notebook"
         :base-extension "org"
         :publishing-directory "/ssh:<my-server>:/opt/lab"
         :recursive t
         :publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
         :headline-levels 5
         :with-toc nil
         :section-numbers nil
         :html-head "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"../static/main.css\">"
         :html-preamble nil
         :html-postamble nil
         :html-head-include-default-style nil
         :html-head-include-scripts nil
         :auto-sitemap t
         :sitemap-filename "index.org"
         :sitemap-sort-files 'anti-chronologically
         :sitemap-title "dan's lab notebook")
        ("lab-static"
         :base-directory "~/src/lab/static/"
         :base-extension "css\\|js\\|png\\|jpg\\|gif\\|pdf\\|mp3\\|ogg\\|swf"
         :publishing-directory "/ssh:<my-server>:/opt/lab/static/"
         :recursive t
         :publishing-function org-publish-attachment)
        ("lab" :components ("lab-notebook" "lab-static"))))

(Please ignore anything you read there it's all stream-of-consciousness nonsense).

@dan pittman – oh, thanks for the sidenote help specifically. :+1:

@Sridhar Ratnakumar I really like the layout and styling on your Neuron thing. All the little touches add up to an excellent first impression

dan pittman @Sridhar Ratnakumar , FWIW, I use a combination of your two approaches: Rib + Tufte-css + Pandoc-sidenote to create sites like my course page here or this dissertation chapter draft.

Check out how the site looks in its source code. It's super succinct.

@Jonathan Reeve dissertation draft link is broken

Oops, hah, that was the local version. This is the public version.