Craig Weber

Blog infrastructure updates

Another year, another blog update. BitBucket is deprecating their Mercurial support, and while I really do appreciate Mercurial, it’s just easier for me to keep everything in GitHub than trying to find another Mercurial provider. Also, GitHub seems to be improving at a pretty rapid pace. So voila, this blog is now hosted on GitHub. This includes my pet static site generator, neon which is used to generate this site.

Further, my pet build tool builder is sufficiently far along that I can use it to automate the building of this static site. builder is pretty cool so far. At some point I will write a dedicated post about it.

New blog infrastructure

I finally got around to automating the publishing of this blog. It hasn’t been a high priority, since I only post a couple of times a year, but it’s always bothered me that something that is such an ideal candidate for automation hasn’t been automated. Anyway, I finally did it and I want to describe the setup in case it’s helpful for anyone looking to do the same.

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