Home73k

Personal website with blog.

Blog posts

Posts are markdown files stored under priv/content and parsed by Earmark. This can be configured in config.exs under config :home73k, :app_global_vars, blog_content: "path/to/content"

Syntax highlighting

For the challenge of it, and to keep user's browsers from having to run javascript just to highlight some code, I chose to do server-side syntax highlighting.

Due to the lexer limitations of elixir-native solutions, the highlighter uses Pygments by calling pygmentize via System.cmd

However, this requires installing python3 & Pygments. Best way to do this is with a venv (virtual python environment), so you'll also want python3-venv installed on a debian system, for example.

By default, Home73k is configured to look for pygmentize in a venv at priv/pygments/bin/pygmentize -- here's a quick howto for how to set that up:

cd priv
python3 -m venv pygments
source pygments/bin/activate
pip3 install Pygments

The location of bin/pygmentize can be configured in config.exs under config :home73k, :app_global_vars, pygmentize_bin: "path/to/bin/pygmentize"