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Discussion on: What tools would you choose to create a personal portfolio site if starting from scratch?

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Arne Babenhauserheide

I do not need a portfolio page, but I finally got my personal page to be as I want it: Built on Emacs org-mode publish, static site, with vcs-provided newest change on the first page, categories and clean PDF export, some of the pages embedding Javascript to provide purely frontend interactive content, with local tooling in Emacs, so creating new pages needs just a simple command, and autotools for full make distcheck to ensure that it works.

This page is what I use to publish everything I create — from simple comments (integrated with org-capture) over drawings and notes from roleplaying sessions to lecture slides; and all categorized so it stays easy to find.

It does not showcase technologies, but shows that I know what I use and understand how tools interact.

And it is free and copyleft licensed, so others can build on it: hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/draketo

Missing:

  • translations (I don’t have enough time to translate all my writings).
  • microformats.
  • scheduled publishing with automatic posting to federated networks.