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by faitswulff 2529 days ago
Haven't started reading yet, but I'm really digging this trend of syntax-highlighted bare text blogs[0]. Is this a template or is it hand-crafted?

[0]: https://christine.website/blog/h-language-2019-06-30

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Currently I'm using a modified version of the after-dark[0] theme for Zola.

[0] https://www.getzola.org/themes/after-dark/

Not related to this site, but my site is "hand-crafted':

http://www.oilshell.org/site.html

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

And yes one of the main things I had to integrate myself was syntax highlighting (via pygments).

FWIW, I think proportional fonts for text and fixed width for code is more readable.

A few people asked me about the tools, and I dumped them here (but they are not supported, may not be runnable):

https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/tree/master/tools-snap...

I do like the simplicity, but the lack of proportional fonts for the text makes reading much more effort than it should be. There's a reason printers have used proportion and serifs for centuries.
The website seems to be using a template [0], and the CSS is a framework [1].

[0]: https://github.com/getzola/after-dark [1]: https://github.com/egoist/hack