Hugo

This post describes a simply method to link back from your static block page to Mastodon, so that people can eventually reply.

I wrote my home page with various tools … Pure HTML At the beginning, I used HTML and .shtml include files Apache was told to process html include files, and I had the boilerplate and bottom in such files and included them from the per-page HTML files. Webber Later I switched to Webber. That was a python written open-source software that I published on gitorious.org. The original gitorious is now down, but you find the git tree still at https://gitorious.

When you run

hugo server

the static web-site generator Hugo creates a local server that you can use to fine-tune your pages. Hugo sits and watches your content and layout directory for any changes. Whenever a file changes, it re-renders the pages and even tells your browser to live-relead the pages.

Very nice.

Except that it doesn’t work with Emacs. But there’s a cure.

I use the static web-site generator Hugo to create my home page. I also use Emacs as my main editor. Hugo is good with Markdown. Emacs is good at Markdown, too. But much better with Org-Mode.

If you want …

• export one .org file as one web page, look at Giles Paterson solution
• export just a subtree of an org-file (e.g. from your org-based Emacs configuration), then look here.

Almost any site describing how to use the static web site generator Hugo uses some complicated method to get the contents publish.