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title: Hello, world
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It's about time I had a blog/journal/mental dumping ground again, and
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getting this set up was a nice little exercise in system
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administration and a little bit of Haskell coding.
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I mention system administration because this is running on a system
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with a version of Debian Linux installed that has been continuously
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upgraded since around 2001. It was both slightly broken and very
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crufty, but I was able to get plenty of space cleared and get
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everything up-to-date with few issues.
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And I mention Haskell because I'm using two Haskell programs as part
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of the infrastructure of this site. One is the site engine itself,
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[Hakyll][1]. It's a customizable build tool that translates from
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various markup formats to HTML, then assembles all the site's pieces
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together.
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The second Haskell program I'm using the the [Clay][2] CSS generator,
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which lets me build the CSS rules in a Haskell program in a CSS-like
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DSL. A short program generates both a flexible semantic grid layout
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and a baseline grid for managing the vertical rhythm of the text. I am
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not a master page designer by any means, but I'm happy with the
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result.
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I will share more details about these tools, along with other things
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I've been working on, in entries to follow.
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[1]: http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/ "Hakyll's Home Page"
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[2]: http://fvisser.nl/clay/ "Clay's Home Page"
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