https://andwati.github.io

Stack

• Zola - Your one-stop static site engine Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
• Utterances - A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
• Goatcounter - GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo

Build

Fork and rename the repository to <username>.github.io .

Note

This is only required if you are going to publish the site using github pages.

clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/<username>/<username>.github.io

cd <username>.github.io

To launch the development server

zola serve

Deploying

Currently my copy is deployed to github pages using an actions workflow in .github/workflows/main.yml

Check other deploy options and how to setup a custom domain in the zola docs at https://www.getzola.org/documentation/deployment/github-pages/

Adding Content

The blog post content is in content/posts. create a markdown file and copy the front matter from any of the existing posts.

Setting up the commenting system

currently just change the repo name in templates\_partials\comments.html

TODO

• create new post script
• add google analytics
• move goatcounter config to config.toml
• modularize open graph(og) tags
• add favicon to config
• add latex support