https://willow.su/enContents © Willow et al Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:34:06 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://willow.su/posts/hello-world.htmlWillow et al<h2>The site</h2> <p>In case you missed the footer, this is using <a href="https://getnikola.com/">Nikola</a>. I wanted something lightweight and fast, so I was gonna go with <a href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo</a>, but I find Go's <code>text/template</code> rather annoying to work with. So I tried out <a href="https://getpelican.com/">Pelican</a> briefly, but apparently it doesn't do incremental compilation very well, and that is important to me. Next I looked at Nikola and I quite like it! It does support incremental compilation (although it's kinda slow to start up, so that may not pay off for a while) and it uses <a href="https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/">Jinja</a> which I quite adore &lt;3</p> <h2>The comments</h2> <p>Getting comments on here was quite a journey. I wanted something that federated over ActivityPub, so I first tried <a href="https://pinka.dev">Pinka</a> but I couldn't get it to federate properly. So then I tried <a href="https://blog.leahdevs.xyz/p/federated-blog-comments/">Leah's Mastodon-API fetching script</a> along with <a href="https://gotosocial.org/">GoToSocial</a> and a read-only API key. Turns out there's a bug in that script which doesn't allow top level comments from other servers. At this point I was running out of options, so I ended up just going with <a href="https://isso-comments.de">Isso</a>, which is an old Python project that just does local comments and nothing else. I really wanted federation though, but I figure this is even lower friction because it doesn't require an account.</p>https://willow.su/posts/hello-world.htmlThu, 16 Apr 2026 06:27:25 GMT