willmatthews.xyz site infrastructure

This is the infrastructure for my personal site, which is currently under construction.

Building

To build the site, you will need to have stack installed.

stack build
stack exec site build

to run the site locally, you can use

stack exec site watch

Technologies Used

• hakyll
• sass (hakyll-sass)
• typescript

Plans

This will replace my existing site, which is made in hugo. My current site is far too bloated and rubbish, I feel like I need a change. There is a certain virtue in making it all very lightweight.

I plan on building it ALL up from the bottom, style and all.

This will also be treated as a learning experience to develop my haskell skills (the blade has seriously dulled).

Timeline

New blog will be up before the end of 2024.

2024:

• August: Basic Prototype of site running
• September: Finish Styling
• December: Improve usability (see gwern.net sidenotes etc)

2025:

• February: Add embeddings, semantic search, etc.
• April: Publications as HTML

TODO

• Typescript (should I use Elm instead? I have no idea)
• Render LaTeX inline functions (I want to pre-render them all. Mathjax is too heavy).
• Semantic suggestions with embeddings (Pre-calculate and assign for each post).
• Search
• RSS
• Post list
• Tag handling

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details