A case study of copying the homework badly
... you just lost it.
No, the other game. In the title. A game about squares.
I came across this little puzzle on a hellsite, and it immediately rang a bell. In the other day I read a well written blogpost about writing puzzle solvers. It had an example puzzle about some squares that needed to get to their destinations.
While setting up my github, I figured, why not make a github.io page for it. The github setup was a breeze, so I started wondering how this should be populated. I heard about Static Site Generators (SSG) before, but never used one. Github supports and endorses Jekyll. I did not really want to setup Jekyll, and writing HTML by hand was not on my mind either.
Searching for a comprehensive list of SSGs yielded massive amount of results, each of them with slightly different capabilities and usecases.
And most importantly, they had different tech stacks.
Using js with npm was a no-go for me, so I started to look for rust based versions, and I found Zola.
Getting Zola to run was really easy, but I could not figure out easily how to do actual pages in it. Digging in the docs (which were really user friendly) and peeking into the theme source codes gave me enough grip to figure out the basics.
For a starter, the blog is just a theme example modified to my needs, but I intend to extend or rewrite some parts of it.