Pelican For Fast Site/Project Development

I was working on a simple single page website for calculating dog agility jump heights and was really missing the tool chain I normally use in Flask and Django web sites for bundling, compressing, and versioning CSS and JS files and a mechanism for putting the bundled/versioned file names …

LiveReload with Pelican

I was looking to use LiveReload while developing using Pelican and I came across this nice simple solution by Merlijn van Deen.

In my use case I also wanted to watch the pelicanconf.py file and themes directory for changes and then regenerate the output and reload the browser. Lastly …

Upgrading Pelican and Migrating to GitHub Pages

I've been using Pelican for this blog for almost three years with source and output stored in a GitHub repository. The output files were then checked out and hosted as static content behind an NGINX web server on my VPS. Since I set that up GitHub introduced GitHub Pages with …

Moved To Pelican

Way back in 2004, when the content in this blog was a category in the main AglityNerd blog, I used the Perl Blosxom application to serve the blog. When my dog agility readers complained/were confused by the sprinkling of tech postings I split off tech.agilitynerd in another Blosxom …