##12:38pm Wednesday 29 October 2014##

Here is what I started to write to Danny Su on his entry about using Hakyll 4.

Hi Danny

I have decided to take the plunge to a static site, and want my previous journal entries to be stored in yyyy/mm/dd folders as you have on your dannysu.github.com repo.   Have you written about your blogging process?

Given that almost every folder/file in dannysu.github.com repo is updated 

See the thing I can’t grok is why nearly all the files in dannysu.github.com are updated each time the repo is updated.

But I can’t formulate the question in a way I think would be easy to understand coming from some random guy online, so I’ll hold it for now.

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##13:17##

There are several sample blogs using Hakyll 4. Most of them just pile all the posts into the posts folder, but I want them organized in folders by date: yyyy/mm/ddpostname (as my original journal) or yyyy/mm/dd/postname.

So, going through the list, I’ve come across a few with that seem to have that quality, based on the URLs of the site:

https://dannysu.com/ https://www.skybluetrades.net/ https://xinitrc.de/ https://abizern.org/

I’ve cloned the repos and will figure out which one is closest to what I’m trying to do:

1. have source files organized in yyyy/mm folders
2. have pagination
3. have a calendar to go back through entries
4. have tags

brb

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##13:38##

Aha! I understand Danny Su’s process. He writes entries in posts, and then has a Rakefile which runs hakyll on the site and copies the files from _site to dannysu.github.com.

BUT, his file structure is now out of the running; he’s got all his source files in one giant folder.

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abizern.org has a layout closest to what I like, but all source files are in one directory.

However, he’s got an emacs macro to create journal entries!!

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xinitrc.de has all blog source files in one directory

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skybluetrades.net seems to be a winner! The source files are in yyyy/mm/dd directories, and he’s got photos embedded.

https://www.skybluetrades.net/blog/posts/2011/10/10/whaleboat-island/index.html

Now, the big difference is he’s got each entry in its own subfolder inside the date folders, like yyyy/mm/dd/entry-name/index.markdown

I can probably deal with that seamlessly once I have a macro to create journal entries either in emacs or Sublime.

##13:50##

Okay, so I’m going to clone Ian’s skybluetrades.net to see if I can make it work. If so, I’ll fork the repo.

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Hmm he’s got a LICENSE file.

I guess it means I can use it so long as I do so respectfully.

I’ll send him an email.

##14:59##

I started to compose an email, but decided not to; the email just sounded like whining cause after cloning the site, I was unable to get the site to build at all.

Instead, I went through the rest of the list and found what I think I can use without Licensing questions.

https://hub.darcs.net/DarkFox/DarkFox-blog

It uses darcs instead of git.

##15:09##

cabal update
cabal install darcs-2.8.5
darcs get --lazy https://hub.darcs.net/DarkFox/DarkFox-blog
cd DarkFox-blog
ghc --make -threaded site.hs
./site build
./site watch

http://localhost:8000

Hooray! Hooray! it works!

Okay, so I guess I need to learn me some darcs.