About

This is the source code for my blog. The compiled output can be found at another GitHub repository.

Compiling

To compile and generate the site, just run make. Below are some things to keep in mind.

• We use nix-shell to track dependencies like Haskell (for Hakyll in particular) and other things.
• We use cabal to build and install the blog binary executable which is our static site generator based on Hakyll. But we’re lazy and don’t modify any of the Cabal configuration files, so things are installed/cached into your $HOME/.cache/cabal folder.
• Similary we use rustup for some of the Rust code and we use rustup for it because we haven’t figured out how to do it in pure Nix. This is for the rust-js stuff (see the toplevel folder of the same name).
• We use a janky Makefile to capture some of the incantations to get things compiled. We’re lazy though and haven’t actually captured any of the dependencies based on the fileystem, which is what make is designed for. So this means everything is a .PHONY rule and nothing is cached.