Why Zola?

I recently started using Zola as my static site generator in order to get some experience with designing my website (hosted on GitHub.

I chose Zola because it is fast, is written in Rust, and because the majority of the text on the site can be formatted using Markdown. Although I am an Org mode user and know that ox-hugo exists, I still prefer to use Markdown since that is what the majority of the alternatives I was looking at was using as well.

Org can also export to Markdown, so it ended up being a non-issue if I decided I could not live without Org.

I decided to start a blog because that’s how I consume most content online. Through RSS/atom in my Elfeed reader.

The topics will wander: algorithms that fascinate me, tutorials on tools I love, or half-baked ideas I’m still working through.

Welcome to my blog.