From 49a34570cec2339c6fc8965474a41900920442b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Thompson Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 09:42:24 -0400 Subject: Add website. --- website/posts/0.1-release.sxml | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/posts/0.1-release.sxml (limited to 'website/posts') diff --git a/website/posts/0.1-release.sxml b/website/posts/0.1-release.sxml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..17d18ca --- /dev/null +++ b/website/posts/0.1-release.sxml @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +;;; -*- scheme -*- + +(use-modules (haunt utils)) + +`((title . "Introducing Haunt") + (date . ,(string->date* "2015-08-08 10:00")) + (tags "news" "releases") + (summary . "Haunt 0.1 released") + (content + ((p "I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of Haunt, yet +another static site generator. Does the world really need another one +of those? No, but Haunt is special because it is written in Guile +Scheme, a clean and elegant Lisp dialect, which allows users to +compose their websites using functional programming techniques. Using +a general-purpose, extensible programming language to build websites +allows Haunt users to view their website as not just mere data, but a +program. Haunt empowers the user to build the abstractions they need +to make a great static website without getting in the way.") + (p "At its core, Haunt is a very simple program. To build your +site, Haunt takes your posts and static assets as input, passes them +to a series of user-defined building procedures that return one or +more pages, and outputs all of the generated pages to the file system. +That's all there is to it. All of the \"good stuff\" is implemented +in the builder procedures. Haunt 0.1 comes with simple blog and Atom +feed generators.") + (p "Naturally, this website is built with Haunt. You can see its +complete source code in the " + (code "website") " directory in Haunt's " + (a (@ (href "https://git.dthompson.us/haunt.git/tree/HEAD:/website")) + "official git repository") + ".") + (p "The Haunt 0.1 release tarball URL can be found on the " + (a (@ (href "/downloads.html")) "downloads page") + ".") + (p "Haunt is built to be as hackable as possible, and patches to +improve it are very much welcome. In particular, new post readers for +common formats such as org-mode and Markdown are desired, along with a +more robust blog builder and theme engine. In lieu of a mailing list, +patches may be sent to " + (code "davet") " at " (code "gnu.org") ".") + (p "Happy haunting!")))) -- cgit v1.2.3