Custom Static Site Generator

Thu 12 September 2024

Once again I've migrated this blog to a new backend - originally I had been using Octopress, then later I migrated to Pelican after I got fed up with the complicated setup and dependencies. Well, recently I had issues getting Pelican to work after some updates, so I decided to bite the bullet and write my own small static site generator: 開板.

Really it's just an excuse to play around with Rust and make it easier to customize my site, but if it means no more painful upgrades that's a nice side effect :D It also gave me a good opportunity to add a check for broken internal links, and indeed I found quite a few!

I've tried to keep all URLs backwards compatible and the visual appearance identical (I'm using the same Jinja templates), but please do let me know if you notice anything broken.

Tags: programming, blogging, rust