ekzyis.com

My personal website including blog.

Development

This site consists of only static HTML, CSS, JS in public/.

The files are built (or "rendered") with the golang text/template standard package. It doesn't use html/template since I had problems including HTML like a common header, navigation menu, footer for a reusable layout. But this shouldn't be a problem since there is no user-generated content (yet?).

To build the files, a Makefile is used.

Run make build to create the renderer binary.

Run make render to render all files in public/.

Deployment is done by rendering all files in production mode and then copying them where a webserver like nginx can serve them.

I use deploy.sh for this.

How to create new blog post

1. Create new Markdown file in blog/
2. It needs to have this header:

Title:        title
Date:         date
ReadingTime:  time
Sats:         0
Comments:     comments

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3. Update ComputeTitle in html.go (TODO: make this no longer required)
4. Run make render.

Done!