(hollaback/cc)Apr 12
Christine Lemmer-Webber

Everyone I know who uses Haunt to build their websites loves it, and there's good reason for that: it's the static site generator foundation that best understands that a static site generator is a computer program, a function whose input is a pile of blogpost files and whose output is a complete website.

But at the end of the day it's just a computer program, and you should be able to hack that program to make it yours

Use Haunt! https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html

Haunt — dthompson

Apr 11 at 2:54pmWeb
Show threadChris AlemanyApr 11
@cwebber very interesting! I am going to check it out and possibly get out from under my 20 year reliance on Wordpress?
Show threadEQApr 11
@cwebber Thanks, been wanting something very simple since a while now, will look into that one!
Show threadzipkid - Breaker of SystemsApr 11
@cwebber what kind of scheme are they running over there…!? 😉🤣
Show threadPhantasus Apr 11

@cwebber Hmm. I played with jekyll, I knew about haunt. Hugo is in particular popular. Oh my... this could be tempting to fool around a little with scheme. In the past that meant I don't get shit done.

I think it would make sense from the standpoint to just clone it and then not touching it for years, I'm so tired of `make install` and other fumbling around to shit done where others have lazy tools like `gem install jekyll` or similar.

Show threadAntonApr 11

@phantasus @cwebber

Maybe you would want to join #Gentoo (or #GUIX)? We do "make install" for each other, so that nobody has to do *all* of their "make install" for themselves.

Show threadPhantasus Apr 11

@anton @cwebber Look. I run here happily Archlinux since years. I won't change my distro, just to feel more comfortable with one particular package.

As long as `pacman -Ss guix` returns nothing I have to make inconvenient installs. This is also an issue with a couple of other spritely projects, like goblins, which relies on some TLS library and threads implementation. With a couple of hours investing to debug the build process, you can get that running too.

But convenient as a `npm install X`, `gem install X`, `pip install X` or whatever you fancy, it's sadly not yet.

Show threadfloApr 11
@cwebber
What does it differently to, say, Hugo?
Show threadlucaApr 11
@cwebber Scheme, yikes!
I thought to grow old enough to see people out of the forests of parenthesis of Lisp! 😂
I'm convincing myself that if Emacs didn't make a myth maybe Lisp had not survived the future.
My 80s fascination for Prolog saw the language disappear, but Lisp still haunts us! 😅
Show threadpkalApr 12
@luc0x61 @cwebber There is still interest in Prolog (in the right circles of course), e.g. https://www.metalevel.at/prolog
The Power of Prolog

Introduction to modern Prolog

Show threadsuper graphic ultra modern edu Apr 11
@cwebber haunt rocks!!!
Show threadEllieApr 11
@cwebber I'm already using Jekyll without knowing Ruby well. Would switching to using Haunt without knowing Scheme well be an improvement?
Show threadChristine Lemmer-WebberApr 11
@ellie Haunt largely sings if you're willing to spend some time hacking the parentheses
Show threadEllieApr 11

@cwebber If I had the time * energy for hacking the parentheses I'd probably finally learn Erlang?

(Or Elixir? That appears to have become viable sometime in the last decade.)

Show thread Kiri Apr 11
@cwebber I've actually been looking into trying Haunt after installing Guix System and having a blast configuring it!