Welcome. This is the beginning of my new internet home.
The point
This is a little space for me to show the internet that I do things. My intent is to focus predominantly on software engineering, computer science, and related career pursuits. Lots of people have pages like this. Now I also have a page like this. I feel very hip.
Why a static page
The web is a complicated and messy place. With a static page what you see is what you get. There's no magic and the source code is simple and easy to follow - the pages that are delivered are the pages that are stored server-side.
Additionally, there's some added benefit over dynamic pages:
- Complexity
- Configuration and production of context required knowledge of
python,html,css, andjinja2 - Security
- There's nothing dynamic that can be exploited
- Performance:
- Simple caching
- Limited dependencies:
- Less complex infrastructure to run the site; we just require a web server that can serve static files
- No modules, libraries, or packages with their own dependency issues
Why pelican
Pelican is a static website generator written in Python. I've written the pages in markdown (Pelican also supports reStructuredText if you're into that instead).
Syntax highlighting
Combined with Pygments it can produce syntax highlighted blocks (in a lot of languages):
fn hello_world() {
println!("Hello world!");
}
And, of course, inline code like hello_world() as well.
Content generation
Style-wise, it's straight-forward to produce your own templates and styles to get the texture you're looking for. And, once you're up and running, content generation is as simple as writing a new markdown page.