I had a bunch of separate git repositories that I wanted to merge into one, while also maintaining the existing git history as much as possible. There were three cases: one where the original repository is in a directory which can be simply renamed to fit into the new structure, Continue Reading
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Add to Pelican – Sitemap and Robots.txt
Finally with some more time on my hands I fixed up the last bit of the site migration from WordPress to Pelican: adding the sitemap and robots.txt file. The robots.txt file was easy, as this is a static file in the first place. Just create the file in /content/extra and Continue Reading
Fixing my Pelican to display images
I found that the Pelican site theme I was using was automatically expanding images to 100% width, which I didn’t want to have. I also wanted to use captions on my images. Thanks to Joe Lotz I was able to sort this out. This involved switching from the Pelican provided Python Markdown to Pandoc Markdown. Continue Reading
Hello, World
Well it only seems fitting that the first post I write for this iteration of the site would be a description of how I made it. As I go back and add content from the old site(s) to this one I’m going to manually update the timestamp to the original Continue Reading