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