How this website is made

A static website based on Pandoc Framework

I know, in the last month I’ve edited my web site several times but there is a reason: I am not an aesthete, then, I’ve tried to find a right balance between usability, beauty, maintainability and portability.

The first goal was: My web site, that of a security engineer, shall be unhackable for this reason I’ve opted for a static web site type.

I tried to develop directly in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript but it was so complicated and unmaintainable, then I tried to use the Jekyll framework but it was so tricky, every time I had to use docker and sometimes program in Ruby to resolve a lot of bugs.

The solution, IMHO, is Pandoc 🐼: Write in Markdown and generate the HTML and much more.

I spent a lot of time reading, studying and configuring my environment to achieve the four goals I mentioned before: usability, beauty, maintainability and portability.

After some Google searches I found this wonderful article that opened my POV: Build an Amazing Markdown Editor Using Visual Studio Code and Pandoc.

With this environment I can write simple Markdown codes, apply a static template and generate the related HTML5 pages. To increase my productivity I’ve developed two simple Powershell scripts(now is multiplatform) that build the entire blog and create new articles.

Special thanks to Vito Nicola Galluzzi and Angela Caporale, they convinced me to change my horrible old website.