Hello, World!

As this blog enters the world, let us begin in the customary way: "hello, world!"

This blog will be a place for me to write things. I'm not really trying to achieve anything with this, except to write more words, so keep your expectations low. 🙂

For some reason, I have decided on a slightly odd software stack for this blog: I am using the Haunt static site generator. It is pretty bare-bones, and requires some up-front setup. Haunt is not much more than a Guile Scheme library for parsing posts and constructing pages from them. It has a few helpers, and a way to define "themes", but not that much else.

I decided to define a fancy style that I saw in an Org mode exporter time, to put the name of a language on the top-right of a code block.

pre code:after {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    padding: 10px;
    outline: 1px solid black;
}
pre:hover code:after {
    display: block;
}

I need to make sure to define a new style for each language I use, though.

.language-scheme:after { content: "Scheme"; }
.language-css:after { content: "CSS"; }

But I should also add some sort of source highlighting, I guess. I have no idea how hard that is going to be.

Anyway, it's a start!