So I guess my first blog should be about setting up this blog.

I wanted to use GitHub pages. By default they use Jekyll, which is built with Ruby. I have no experience with that language, so I tried to use something Python-based. I found this post about using Pelican, but I had some problems. I'm going to try to give here step by step instructions, using Linux.

Create a directory for the blog, an environment and activate it:

mkdir blog
cd blog
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Install pelican with one of these options:

# This option only allows reStructuredText
python -m pip install pelican

# This allows markdown and reStructuredText
python -m pip install "pelican[markdown]"

Create the basic structure:

pelican-quickstart

I'll leave the standard theme. Read in the mentioned post if you want to change the theme.

Note I've created a new post about how to change the style to Flex

To test locally the blog, generate the site with:

make html

Now start a web server with:

make serve

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