Louis-Philippe Véronneau - websitehttps://veronneau.org/2017-11-04T00:00:00-04:00Migrating my website to Pelican2017-11-04T00:00:00-04:002017-11-04T00:00:00-04:00Louis-Philippe Véronneautag:veronneau.org,2017-11-04:/migrating-my-website-to-pelican.html<p>After too much time lying to myself, telling myself things like "I'll just add
this neat feature I want on my blog next week", I've finally made the big jump,
ditched django and migrated my website to <a href="https://getpelican.com">Pelican</a>.</p>
<p>I'm going to the <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2017/MiniDebConfCambridge">Cambridge Mini-Debconf</a> at the end of the month …</p><p>After too much time lying to myself, telling myself things like "I'll just add
this neat feature I want on my blog next week", I've finally made the big jump,
ditched django and migrated my website to <a href="https://getpelican.com">Pelican</a>.</p>
<p>I'm going to the <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2017/MiniDebConfCambridge">Cambridge Mini-Debconf</a> at the end of the month for
the <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2017/DebConfVideoteamSprint20Nov2017">Debconf Videoteam Autumn sprint</a> and I've taken the task of making
daily sprint reports for the team. That in return means I have to publish my
blog on <a href="http://planet.debian.org/">Planet Debian</a>. My old website not having
feeds made this a little hard and this perfect storm gave me the energy to make
the migration happen.</p>
<p>Anyway, django was fun. Building a (crappy) custom blogging engine with it
taught me some rough basics, but honestly I don't know why I ever thought it was
a good idea.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong: <a href="https://github.com/CTPUG/wafer">django is great</a> and should
definitely be used for large and complicated websites. My blog just ain't one.</p>
<p>Migrating to Pelican was pretty easy since it also uses Jinja2 templates and
generates content from Mardown. The hardest part was actually bending it to
replicate the weird and specific behavior I wanted it to have.</p>
<p>So yeah, woooo, I migrated to Pelican. Who cares, right? Well, if you are
amongst the very, very few people who read the blog posts I mainly write for
myself, you'll be please to know that:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/tag/debconf.html">Tags</a> are now implemented</li>
<li>You can subscribe to a wide array of <a href="/feeds">ATOM feeds</a> to follow my blog</li>
</ul>
<p>Here's a bonus picture of a Pelican from Wikimedia, just for the sake of it:</p>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelican_lakes_entrance02.jpg"><img src="/media/blog/2017-11-04/pelican.jpg" height="100%" width="100%" title="A pelican" alt="A pelican"></a></p>