Lone Henchman

Sometimes about tools, sometimes about graphics, sometimes I just ramble.

The Making of This Website

This Website: The Story So Far

This site's source is now available on GitHub and the generator component is even open-source. To mark the occasion, I thought I'd write a bit about its history and the journey from WordPress to a fully static site.

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This Website: The Generator

All of the code I'm going to discuss here is available on GitHub. Links to specific bits of code will point at what is currently the HEAD commit - things will naturally move and change as time passes.

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This Website: Optimizing Resource Inclusion

One of the perks of making your own stuff is that some days you get to make it do neat things. Yesterday was such a day. I've long been annoyed at having every page linking in every possible script (highlight.js, MathJax, etc) just in case there might be content on that page that needs it. But now that I'm in full control of the site's generator, it was easy to just fix it.

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