Colophon
Created: 2015-08-31
Status: notes
Here are the tools used to build and run this site.
Most pages are written using Vim using the Pandoc markdown syntax. For each page that was manually written, the source markdown file can be accessed by clicking “page source” at the top of that page. The markdown files are then compiled to HTML using a static site generator I wrote, which is stored in generator.py in the repository1.
The style sheet for this site is written in SASS and compiled to CSS. It uses the Solarized light theme by Ethan Schoonover for body text, background, and colors. Other aspects of the style sheet are inspired by gitit, Gwern’s site and GitHub’s (old) documentation pages.
All of the source files necessary to build this site are hosted on GitHub. You can visit the repository by clicking “website source” at the top of any page. I also have a mirror on BitBucket.
The actual site is served via Linode, using Nginx on a 64-bit Debian 8 (Jessie) machine. I currently use the Linode 1GB $10 per month plan.
I have registered the domains issarice.com and riceissa.com through Hover.
Although the static site generator I wrote is freely licensed, I don’t recommend that others use it (at least for now); it is somewhat of a hack that I put together to get some features I wanted working (but found lacking in other static site generators). Instead, one can find a list of many static site generators here.↩
The content on this page is in the public domain.