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<p>I have been avoiding changing things up in this blog even though I really should have done this a long time ago. There were several things I did not like so much about it:</p>
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<p>To actually generate the site, I needed to do the following:</p>
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<p>Since everything is built offline, a working Haskell environment was necessary.</p>
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<p>As stated above, since the generated HTML files are in <code>_site/</code>, I needed to find a way to get GH pages to host them. The way I did it was to have <a href="https://github.com/usefulalgorithm/old-website">another separate repo</a>, make sure <code>_site/</code> is pointing to that repo, then run <code>stack exec site build</code>, check that things are generated correctly in <code>_site</code>, and finally push to both this repo and the actual GH pages repo.</p>
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<p>Now that I’m not employed and have some free time, I decided it was finally time to make it more usable and generally encourage myself to post more often. Here’s what I did:</p>
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<p>This should be quite obvious - there’s a <a href="https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/tutorials/github-pages-tutorial.html">tutorial</a> that tells you how to change your executable’s target directory from <code>_site/</code> to <code>docs/</code>. I can just ditch the old repo, rename the Haskell repo to <code>usefulalgorithm.github.io</code>, and have its page deployed from <code>docs/</code> in the main branch. I’m pretty sure the directory has to be called <code>docs/</code> and not anything else though.</p>
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<p>I’ve done a bunch of GH actions in my previous job and found them to be a huge time saver. So what I wanted to do is just update Markdown files in <code>posts/</code>, and then trigger the Haskell commands from within the action runner.</p>
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<p>Writing Markdown files is still a little annoying, especially when I’m on my phone and just want to post something to my blog. I want to find a way to create posts through pull requests, but I need to think about where to put things like tags and how to format the pull request message into a proper Markdown file.</p>
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<p>More often than not, I would repost the published post to my socials. I know social media is like the worst thing that’s happened in 20 years, but I still want people to read what I have to say.</p>
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<p>Droning shoegaze music. Some songs have riffs that had me think of the nu metal drop D riffs.</p>
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<p>As stated above, since the generated HTML files are in <code>_site/</code>, I needed to find a way to get GH pages to host them. The way I did it was to have <a href="https://github.com/usefulalgorithm/old-website">another separate repo</a>, make sure <code>_site/</code> is pointing to that repo, then run <code>stack exec site build</code>, check that things are generated correctly in <code>_site</code>, and finally push to both this repo and the actual GH pages repo.</p>
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<p>This should be quite obvious - there’s a <a href="https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/tutorials/github-pages-tutorial.html">tutorial</a> that tells you how to change your executable’s target directory from <code>_site/</code> to <code>docs/</code>. I can just ditch the old repo, rename the Haskell repo to <code>usefulalgorithm.github.io</code>, and have its page deployed from <code>docs/</code> in the main branch. I’m pretty sure the directory has to be called <code>docs/</code> and not anything else though.</p>
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<p>Writing Markdown files is still a little annoying, especially when I’m on my phone and just want to post something to my blog. I want to find a way to create posts through pull requests, but I need to think about where to put things like tags and how to format the pull request message into a proper Markdown file.</p>
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