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I dabbled a little bit in #lean and found the "tactic" concept to be a very intuitive interface to types metaprogramming.
I'm currently tinkering with my blog generated by #hakyll and as usual the hardest in programming is not writing the code, but discovering interfaces.
Given how good the typing is in #haskell, I thought... Hang on, I'm writing all these definitions, surely the LSP could be smart enough to just let me discover the relevant functions right? Something like a tactic but for Haskell.
One search after, I'm discovering Wingman [1], a tactic metaprogramming plugin for HLS which used to work back in GHC<9. Apparently the upgrade cost was too high and the plugin got dropped unfortunately...

[1] https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/towards-tactics/

Added a new recipe to my #Hakyll grimoire: https://frasertweedale.github.io/blog-fp/posts/2026-03-28-hakyll-pages-from-haskell-source.html #Haskell

I really need to redesign my blog. But I used #hakyll and I don't remember #haskell clearly. If I use #rust, for example, I need to rewrite the site engine and can't use #pandoc :(

I really need to redesign my blog. But I used #hakyll and I don't remember #haskell clearly. If I use #rust, for example, I need to rewrite the site engine and can't use #pandoc :(

I really need to redesign my blog. But I used #hakyll and I don't remember #haskell clearly. If I use #rust, for example, I need to rewrite the site engine and can't use #pandoc :(

I really need to redesign my blog. But I used #hakyll and I don't remember #haskell clearly. If I use #rust, for example, I need to rewrite the site engine and can't use #pandoc :(

I really need to redesign my blog. But I used #hakyll and I don't remember #haskell clearly. If I use #rust, for example, I need to rewrite the site engine and can't use #pandoc :(

Wrote a #Hakyll patch over the weekend that enables tracking of metadata-only dependencies. The PR got merged today, so if you are generating navigation sidebars, tag lists, etc. using Hakyll then give it a try.

https://github.com/jaspervdj/hakyll/commit/e4b2dfd7d7fe8a6be163638efc8f7f0c9558afbb

#Haskell

@julesh I have #KaTeX working on my #Hakyll blog. I'd like to say it wasn't complicated, though I honestly don't really remember. Resources I found useful include https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/using-katex-with-hakyll/ and https://tony-zorman.com/posts/katex-with-hakyll.html . And of course you are welcome to look at the source of my blog: https://github.com/byorgey/blog .

@julesh I have #KaTeX working on my #Hakyll blog. I'd like to say it wasn't complicated, though I honestly don't really remember. Resources I found useful include https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/using-katex-with-hakyll/ and https://tony-zorman.com/posts/katex-with-hakyll.html . And of course you are welcome to look at the source of my blog: https://github.com/byorgey/blog .

@julesh I have #KaTeX working on my #Hakyll blog. I'd like to say it wasn't complicated, though I honestly don't really remember. Resources I found useful include https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/using-katex-with-hakyll/ and https://tony-zorman.com/posts/katex-with-hakyll.html . And of course you are welcome to look at the source of my blog: https://github.com/byorgey/blog .

@julesh I have #KaTeX working on my #Hakyll blog. I'd like to say it wasn't complicated, though I honestly don't really remember. Resources I found useful include https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/using-katex-with-hakyll/ and https://tony-zorman.com/posts/katex-with-hakyll.html . And of course you are welcome to look at the source of my blog: https://github.com/byorgey/blog .

@julesh I have #KaTeX working on my #Hakyll blog. I'd like to say it wasn't complicated, though I honestly don't really remember. Resources I found useful include https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/using-katex-with-hakyll/ and https://tony-zorman.com/posts/katex-with-hakyll.html . And of course you are welcome to look at the source of my blog: https://github.com/byorgey/blog .

Dear Lazy Web... all the web sites that I'm involved in running are static websites using #Hakyll. It's an arrangement that I'm pretty happy with.

I've been increasingly looking at integrating Activity Pub comments and I've so far not found a pre-existing solution for this.

I dropped solutions like Drupal and WordPress yonks ago but the more I look at this space, the more I look at solutions like the ones JWZ has here https://www.jwz.org/hacks/#wysiwyg-comments that already do exactly what I want.

Thoughts?

Rob showing us how to build a #Hakyll site at Brisbane Functional Programming Group #BFPG #FP #Haskell

Brisbane Functional Programming Group #BFPG tomorrow 2025-07-08: #Pandoc + #Hakyll. Be there or be a lambda cube! https://lu.ma/waqpteiq #FP #Haskell

Brisbane Functional Programming Group #BFPG next week: #Pandoc + #Hakyll double header! Come learn about these amazing tools (yes, real world #Haskell!). #FP newcomers are always welcome! https://lu.ma/waqpteiq

Super niche question, but: is there a way to do tables in #emacs #orgmode together with #hakyll (and thus #pandoc) that can do cells that span columns?

@buherator don't know if it meets your requirement, but i know at least quiet a few people who are very happy with #hakyll ... and its writen in #haskell ;) https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

I wrote a new note: "Reading Time Estimates for #Pandoc Based Blog Generators" https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2025/pandoc-reading-time

#haskell #hakyll #programming #Blogging

Brisbane Functional Programming Group #BFPG March meetup is CANCELLED, due to ongoing impact of TC Alfred. We'll reschedule the #Pandoc and #Hakyll talks later this year. Hope to see you in April!

Brisbane Functional Programming Group #BFPG next Tuesday 2025-03-11. A fantastic double-header with introductory talks about #Pandoc (Siva Kalyan) and #Hakyll (Rob Ellen). Be there or be a lambda cube! https://lu.ma/lpbnfbfo

Thanks to speakers and attendees at Brisbane Functional Programming Group #BFPG last night. Next month's topics: #Pandoc and #Hakyll! In the meantime, come hang on our Discord - invite link on the event pages at https://bfpg.org. #FP

#Haskell thing that I only realized this week, if you're using #Hakyll as a static site generator, it's fairly straightforward to combine tagsRules with renderRss/renderAtom to get a dedicated RSS feed for each of your tags

https://bitbucket.org/joe_warren/blog/src/8cc0c3455f0de1c55cba1afb020022071cc91202/app/Main.hs#lines-326:340

I'm expecting tumbleweeds for this post but is anyone aware of any #mastodon integrations for #hakyll?

Please boost as I think it needs to go wide to reach any potential insight that might be out there 🤣

#haskell

I always wanted to insert inline `.dot` `graphviz` syntax into my blog posts. But I never spent enough time to finish the plumbing.

But today was the day I could make it to render something and it seems to work: https://trofi.github.io/posts/300-inline-graphviz-dot-in-hakyll.html

#hakyll #dot #graphviz

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#Haskell has many strengths, and #Hakyll is powerful, but rapid upgrades and quick turnaround for a personal website aren't really their forte. Hakyll has a huge dependency footprint. (I switched to pandoc binary - not compiling it - and later to mdbook for my site.)

Still, moving to a new stackage snapshot for your site isn't usually a daily thing. Think of it more like a debian upgrade ?

Holy shit, turns out JDG kept going on after the LambdaConf debacle.

He even hired a lawyer to bully some person with a C&D. How do I know?

I'm setting up #hakyll and to find a more up-to-date config, I did this search: https://github.com/search?q=hakyll

And got some popcorn-worthy stuff:

- https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-community/
- https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2020/07/24/fantasyland-code-of-professionalism/

$ #jekyll new mywebsite

$ find mywebsite/ | wc -l
3772

Alright, I stay with #hakyll.

#hakyll is pretty nice as a static site generator. #haskell https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

My #hakyll based blog program has bitrotted a bit too much.

Instead of fixing the #haskell code, it seems https://gohugo.io does pretty much everything I want. Tempted to just use #hugo.

My main need is #orgmode format as a first class citizen (probably using #pandoc ?)