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title: Web stack
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date: 2019-06-26
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Previous stacks
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At first I used to write my website using raw HTML and CSS. I did so to learn
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the basics of websites. It was nothing fancy and soon I realized I wanted to be
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able to script some parts, such as common navigation items.
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I used this opportunity to try a tool in a programming language I wanted to
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learn. I wanted to use a static website generator: since my personal website is
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simple, I'd rather not involve databases. As a result, I ended up using
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[Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/).
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But after using it every now and then, it became a black box and I didn't fully
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understand how it worked.
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New stack
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I decided to use [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) to convert from Markdown to HTML.
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It is widely used by other generators and takes care of the file conversion.
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For automation, I use a simple top-level Makefile and
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[Tup](http://gittup.org/tup/index.html).
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