I stumbled across this rather nicely-formatted blog by Alex Beal and thought I'd share it. It's a particular kind of minimalist style that I like, because it puts the content first. It reminds me of Mark Pilgrim's old blog.

I can't remember which post in particular I came across first, but the one that I thought I would share was this remarkably detailed personal research project on tracking mood.

That would have been the end of it, but I then stumbled across this great review of "Type Driven Development with Idris", a book by Edwin Brady. I bought this book during the Christmas break but I haven't had much of a chance to deep dive into it yet.

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Thanks for that link, I am very interested how the blog was made originally. And I found it funny that you mention the Idris book, which I am currently reading ;-) Thanks again

Norbert

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comment 2

Wow thanks so much for the shout out. It's always surreal to see that other people are actually reading my blog :-)

To answer Norbert's question, my current setup is emacs org-mode + hakyll. If you haven't used hakyll before, it's a sort of Haskell DSL for static site generation. It uses pandoc for all the conversion to HTML, which is nice because Pandoc supports just about every markup language out there.

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Hi folks, thanks both for your comments.

I'm considering a move from IkiWiki to something with Hakyll being quite high on my list; I'm watching this series of blog posts by Iustin Pop; he's documenting his move from IkiWiki to Hakyll: https://k1024.org/posts/2018/2018-03-21-hakyll-basics/index.html

One thing I want, that I don't think Hakyll does out of the box, is comments; but I spotted this post by Vincent Bernat today that lists some Disqus alternatives worth a look https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2018-more-privacy-blog

Jon,

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