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diff --git a/site/cleopatra.org b/site/cleopatra.org index 0831621..c926c5a 100644 --- a/site/cleopatra.org +++ b/site/cleopatra.org @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#+TITLE: A Series on Generating this Static Website +#+TITLE: An Unfinished Series on How This Static Website Used to be Generating #+SERIES: ./meta.html #+SERIES_PREV: ./posts/Thanks.html @@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ become out-dated. This is reminescent of documenting any software project, and I was aware at that time of a dedicated paradigm to prevent these kind of issues: [[http://www.literateprogramming.com/][literate programming]]. -I spent quite some time turning my custom toolchain into a literate program, so -that its actual code source would actually be the write-ups I wanted to add to -my website. This was an interesting challenge, since it meant *~cleopatra~* -would have to generate itself before it could build my website. In other words, -*~cleopatra~* achieves the bootstsrapping challenge! +I spent quite some time turning my custom toolchain into a literate +program, so that its actual code source would actually be the +write-ups I wanted to add to my website. This was an interesting +challenge, since it meant *~cleopatra~* would have to generate itself +before it could build my website. In other words, *~cleopatra~* +achieves the bootstsrapping challenge! I really enjoyed this first experiment with literate programming, and I started using *~cleopatra~* for other projects of mine where @@ -28,9 +29,17 @@ bootstrap jump.”]. But the so-called generation processes I had written for *~cleopatra~* the first basically “just worked” with *~cleopatra~* the second. -So, coming back to this series, it is just the very reason why I started using -*~cleopatra~* in the first place: the generation processes used by this website, -written as literate programs. +Now, I don’t use *~cleopatra~* anymore. Literate programming is a fun +paradigm, but I never took the time to actually document in depth most +of the bits on how this website is built. So I took the various +scripts extracted by *~cleopatra~*, and recreated a straightforward +~makefile~ file on top of it. The nice thing is, it now takes way less +time to build! + +Anyway, coming back to this series, it is just the very reason why I +started using *~cleopatra~* in the first place: the generation +processes I was using to generate this website, written as literate +programs. If you are curious, you can have a look. - [[./cleopatra/dependencies.org][Installing Dependencies]] :: |