Learning Korean

안녕하세요! 한국어를 배운지 10년 됐는데 이 정도 말 수 있습니다. 대학교 다닐 때 제 아름다운 아내 마났고 얼마 되지않아, 한국어를 배우기 시작했습니다. 지금은 무엇보다도 쉽고 자연스럽게 말하고 싶은데 배우기 어렵고 시간이 많지 않습니다.

Getting a site up and running

After looking around for a good tool to build a personal website, I first came across elm, but due to lack of a 1.0 and seemingly little-to-no progress on the repo I went looking some more and came across zola. Getting started with a project was pretty straightforward... but there were definitely some challenges!

Firstly, every theme has its own variables to set and organization for getting something up and running. For example, one theme might want a folder structure like

├───content
   ├───blog
   └───pages

while others might everything under content or use different names. This requires some trial and error, as despite each theme having some instructions, it seems mostly to be a 'figure it out yourself'.

Secondly it was strange to have this hybrid handlebars / markdown style for things, but I am not a web-developer by any means, so maybe this is normal. But basically, one can define templated HTML with {% block content %} but then later put in the content folder something like below:

+++
title = "Magnum Opus"
+++

However, despite this feeling weird to me at least, getting something up and running is not too bad and feels far easier compared to getting something up and running a decade ago...

I will continue to catalog how this site progresses in future blogs, along with other content, so hope you enjoy!