Posted on 2020-06-16

This article announces a new version of this blog. Available right now!

In my previous article, I said that "seeing how easy writing a static site generator was made me want to write one for my blog," and that's what I did! I initially wrote a very long article to tell the whole story, but then I decided I didn't want to have such a long article here. Here's a short version.

Basically, I used a small subset of all the features pelican provides. Writing my own software gives me more control. However, with great power comes great ownership of the code, since I doubt anyone else is going to touch my code. But I like it.

Here's a short list of the changes:

• Cleaner and much simpler CSS.
• Related to the previous point, the text is always centered. It was not exactly easy to achieve this, hence the joke in the footer.
• HTML headers (like h2 and h3) have now HTML anchors to make it easy to share specific parts of a post.
• No more sharing buttons. I doubt they were used (but what do I know?) and copying and pasting a link is not that hard. Less clutter on the interface, so it's an improvement.
• I have a contact page. I hope it will make the experience better for everyone.
• No breakage. I was careful to keep the same link for most things. Please let me know if you notice otherwise!
• Clean URL. But to keep everything working as before, all pages will be reachable with the .html extension as well.
• New pygment style (for inline code), which I think is nicer.