Holmusk Tech Blog

Blog for Holmusk Tech Team

How to build and run

1. Build backend:

   stack build
   

2. Run blog:

   stack run site rebuild
   stack run site watch
   

3. Open localhost:8000

How to update and deploy this web page

The workflow is easy:

1. Make sure that you are on the latest develop branch
2. Create a new branch from develop, implement desired changes and open a pull request targetting develop branch
3. Deploy the updated web page content with the following command:

   ./scripts/deploy.sh "Some meaningful message"
   

How to add a blog post

If you want to add a new post you should create a markdown file in the blog/ folder. The name of this file should contain the date of the post and some name. For example: 2018-11-05-cool-post.md.

In the .md file you should add next info in the following format:

---
title: Some really meaningful title that will appear at the page
author: Some cool person's name
github: That person's github account, if they have one
description: Some short description
tags: haskell, stack, cabal, build-tools, tutorial
---

DO NOT COPY TITLE HERE!
Here comes the body of the post itself
...

Converting blogposts from various sources

Note: Please build and run to verify your changes locally before deploying.

docx

You can use pandoc to do conversion:

pandoc <filename>.docx -o <filename>.md

Embedded images may be found by unzipping the document archive:

> unzip <filename>.docx -d /tmp/<filename>

> ls /tmp/<filename>
...
inflating: /tmp/pr/word/media/image1.png
inflating: /tmp/pr/word/media/image2.jpg
inflating: /tmp/pr/word/media/image3.jpg

Notion

You can export the blogpost as md. Navigate to blog post's page in Notion, click the ellipsis menu in the top-right corner and select 'Export'.