Cute Seal Fanpage

An experiment using Nix, Hakyll, Haskell, and shell scripts to automate a simple website deployment pipeline.

Why Seals?

It's an in-joke.

What's all this code?

seal-blog/

• flake.nix
  • The specification for everything is repo can do.
  • Defines the hakyll site build instructions, as well as sets it as an app to be run with nix run .#hakyll-site.
  • Defines the blog generation command as an app to be run with nix run .#generateSealPosts.
  • Creates a shell with the same ghc installed, as well as other haskell tools.
    • For use with nix develop . or direnv
• site.hs
  • The hakyll blog is defined here.
  • Pulls in the rest of the files in this repo and creates a static site at _site.
• config.dhall
  • The config file for the blog generation, run with nix run .#generateSealPosts.
  • Uses a pseudo random number generator, change the seed to see different outputs in the postsOutputPath (default ./posts/).
• The rest of the code is related to the static hakyll site itself.
  • I've tried putting it in it's own src or website folder but
    • it feels like needless refactoring
    • I can't get the flake operations to work :(