Welcome to Version 6 of this website. As promised a few months ago, I decided to take this website, which has been using the Pelican static site generator since 2014, and rewrite it to use the Zola static site generator. This was a pretty painless process; I wrote some Python scripts to take all the Pelican markdown and convert it to Zola format1 and to generate redirects for all the old URLs.
Some notable changes:
- I've removed commenting functionality; Commento's spam filtering has gotten really lousy the last few months and I'm tired of having to translate and delete a bunch of Hindi spam posts every morning.
- Building the site from scratch now takes ~1s instead of ~3s. (woo)
- A bunch of the repetitive inline HTML in posts has been rewritten as shortcodes
- There's now only an Atom feed (no RSS 2.0), at least until this item gets resolved upstream
- I removed the tag cloud from the sidebar because it seemed too noisy
- All the pages have new permalinks, but there are redirects at the old URLs, so hopefully I'm still in compliance with the "Cool URLs Don't Change" rule.
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Mostly, this just entailed changing the format of the front-matter to TOML and adding newlines between footnotes in the Markdown.
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