Moving the blog to Codeberg
As someone who cares about FOSS, I'm always happy to move to a FOSS alternative when one shows up, provided there aren't any big drawbacks. Back when I was in University and starting to learn the ways of Git, I only knew about two Git hosting options: GitHub, the mainstream …

Blog statistics after two years
Wow, it's been two years since I've started this blog! I'm really happy that I've still managed to keep up the one post per month. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up for the third one! For this post I thought it would be fun to look through some …

Making internal linking in pelican effortless
One interesting feature of Pelican, the static site generator I use for this blog, is the internal link expansion syntax with {}. It is documented here. Some examples are {filename}, {static} and {author}. The purpose of the syntax is to have shorter and easier aliases to link to internal content in …

Blog customizations
I've been using pelican as my static blog generator since I started this blog about one year ago. It only took a bit of configuration to get the blog up and running, and a bit of searching through pelicanthemes to find nikhil-theme which is the theme I'm still using. While …

One year of blog
It's been a full year since I started this blog! So I thought I'd take this chance to talk a bit about the blog itself: How it started and my thoughts on it. Origins I had already thought a bit about having my own blog. Having a little corner of …