Beepb00p

Compiler for my blog.

NOTE: readme is a little outdated, I've moved away from Hakyll to a custom generation [[file:src/build.py][script]]. You can fild retired Hakyll stuff [[file:hakyll][here]].

Features:

• formats:
  • [[https://beepb00p.xyz/sandbox/test.html][org-mode]]
  • [[https://beepb00p.xyz/sandbox/Test.html][ipython notebooks]]
  • markdown (useful to link READMEs as blog posts)
• tags
• feeds (rss/atom)
• comments support using Isso
• math support via Mathjax
• drafts
• custom metadata attributes (e.g. tags, special uuid attribute for linking comments, pingback)
• symlink support

There are some comments in ~site.hs~, feel free to email me or open an issue if you want me to explain how something works! I'll write down about it properly at some point later!

• Post compilers

** Org-mode See my [[https://beepb00p.xyz/sandbox/test.html][org-mode sandbox]].

Org related stuff is in ~Org.hs~ and ~src/compile_org.py~. To compile Org into HTML, I'm invoking Emacs in batch mode in ~compile_org.py~ script. Your can try it with ~src/compile_org.py --test src/test.org~.

Reason I'm not using Pandoc for rendering is that it only supports a subset of Org-mode. If you are a heavy user of Org-mode features, e.g. doesn't support literate programming via org-babel.

Using custom script lets me configure (and hack a little) Emacs to bend it into doing what I want. I also process the resulting HTML with BeautifulSoup to add some things org-mode isn't capable of like sidenotes.

** Ipython See my [[https://beepb00p.xyz/sandbox/test.html][org-mode sandbox]].

Ipython related things are in ~Ipynb.hs~ and ~src/compile-ipynb~.

I'm compiling with ~jupyter~, that executes the code and does few extra tweaks in ~src/ipynbconfig.py~, in particular:

• hidden cell support (e.g. when you have lots of boilerlate that don't need to be in the post body)
• details/summary support, so you can collapse boilerplate or long outputs in a collapsible section.

• Misc things

** ~css/generate-links.py~ for generating CSS for certain links (e.g. wikipedia/reddit/github) ** symlink support: see [[file:src/poke-symlinks.py]] and [[file:preview]].

Very useful when the target post (e.g. ipython notebook is in a different repository). Without this, detecting changes wouldn't work (see [[https://github.com/haskell-fswatch/hfsnotify/issues/87][issue]]).

** screenshot comparisons via [[https://github.com/ewanmellor/git-diff-image][git-diff-image]]

Helpful for testing css changes.

In addition I'm using [[https://github.com/yahoo/blink-diff][blink-diff]] since =compare= can't handle pages that are too long :(

• Running & building I guess best place to start would be [[https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/tutorials/02-basics.html][hakyll tutorial]].

• Compiling the site When I want to release new version of site, I'm basically doing a clean rebuild and copying the resulting ~_site~ directory.

In reality it's a little more elaborate, I'm keeping the whole website (HTMLs) under git, so I can easily track changes and rollback in case of issues. I'll explain it and share some workflows later.

• TODOs ** TODO [2019-11-09 Sat 16:52] explain about using ~.metadata~ files