For those of you that might be web folks, and familiar with the #zola framework, Kalpa could certainly use your help on a couple of issues, even if it's just pointers in the right direction.

https://codeberg.org/SFaulken/kalpadesktopsite/issues

Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.

Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zola #germinal #anarchism #writer #fiction #strike #dreyfus #antisemitism #rebellion #novel #author #books #france #mining #coal #journalism @bookstadon

I wrote about my minimal setup for blogging and note taking. Wat do you think?

Get feeds for every category and tag on your Zola site:

https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/2025-0317-zola-tag-category-feeds/

La meilleure série du moment, c'est quand même Les Rougon-Macquart
https://www.litteratureaudio.com/livre-audio-gratuit-mp3/zola-emile-les-rougon-macquart-oeuvre-integrale.html
#littérature #zola

#TIL #zola can link your notes / pages like a #zettelkasten note taking app. You just have to enable backlinks in config.toml.

bottom_footnotes = true

Observations about the Zola static site generator after a month

https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/zola-observations/

Zola test: Can you group taxonomies in front matter?

https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/zola-taxonomy-test/

In Zola, draft = true works in the front matter

https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/zola-draft/

Three new posts on my Zola site:

https://zola.passthejoe.net

@hyde So that first post marks the beginning of an adventure I guess!

https://areskul.com/blog/zola/plus-tailwind/

#css #webdev #zola
#100DaysToOffload

As my grand mother used to say:

"A picture is worth a thousand word prompt"

- No closing tags
- Lighter syntax
- Multiline everything

So why are you still not using #pug?

Today in Labor History February 23, 1898: France imprisoned author Emile Zola for writing J’Accuse, his letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #antisemitism #FreeSpeech #prison #dreyfus #zola #author #novel #books #writer @bookstadon

I just checked how well Zola 0.18 in OpenBSD builds my blog (with its whopping SINGLE POST), which until now I have been building with Zola 0.19.2 in Linux.

Everything looks fine, including atom and rss feeds.

I just checked the Zola project site and learned that 0.20.0 is out.

While admitting that I don't know that much about the project, it doesn't look like almost anything changed

https://github.com/getzola/zola/releases/tag/v0.20.0

https://zola.passthejoe.net/

I'm slowly finishing a website built using #Hugo (#Go). IMO #Zola (#Rust) is a better designed static site generator, but I've hit several limitations that I don't have the time to fix myself.

Hugo, despite having a terrible out-of-box experience, is well supported. I haven't yet hit a behavior that I can't work around, the problem is finding out how. IMO the documentation needs to be heavily refactored. The structure reads like a collection of tips, where 80-90% of what you want exists somewhere in the docs, just not where you'd expect to find it. The other 10-20% is found on Stack Overflow, in GitHub discussions/issues, or by reading the source code.

So, while I was reluctant to go back to Hugo, I'm much happier with Go for performance and the ecosystem than say Ruby (yuck). Rust projects work good too (Deno ), but Go projects tend to mature faster (see esbuild, among other things).

Rust seems to be the best choice for software projects that are "solved", but Go projects evolve (i.e. go) faster.

Last week I changed my blog from #WordPress to a #Zola SSG site with the #tabi theme, edited with #Obsidian (https://thekrugers.com/blog/things-look-different-here/).

My other site, andyk1970.com, used to be a pure HTML site that I edited by editing the .html files with vim. Last night I switched it over to Zola with the tabi theme as well. So Obsidian is now used to edit both my web sites.

The second site is not as important (and not a blog), so I'm happy to experiment with different themes. Any suggestions?

I like this post from @bbelderbos on How to Blog with Zola.

I have been thinking about a shell script to start a new entry, and he has one here https://apythonistalearningrust.com/blog-with-zola/

He uses the Terminimal theme, which I did test and consider since I used to use the theme that inspired it in Hugo