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0 pointssillysaurusx6y ago0 comments

Me too! A few months ago I made detailed notes on how to set up your own: https://github.com/shawwn/wiki

Gwern was kind enough to assist by sending over the exact version numbers of all the Haskell libraries it depends on, and answering some questions about deployment. The version numbers turned out to be crucial to getting everything running.

IMO https://www.gwern.net/ is the ideal combination of style + ease of use (for the writer) + effective ways of organizing knowledge.

The whole thing is hosted out of an S3 bucket, so there's no server to manage and zero downtime. I've wondered if it'd be possible to use github pages for this purpose, since that would make it completely free. But it only takes a couple hours of work to get everything up and running. The biggest delay is waiting for haskell to compile all the libraries.

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kootenpv6y ago

Yea, look at jekyll in combination with github pages. You can see my blog for example (https://vks.ai), the code is hosted here: https://github.com/kootenpv/kootenpv.github.io

gwern6y ago

The downside with switching over to Jekyll is that gwern.net is increasingly dependent on Haskell integration with Pandoc, which would be difficult if you were compiling with another language: you'd have to refactor all of the additional rewrite passes (for interwiki scripts, image dimension specification, affiliate links, link annotations, inflation adjustment...) to make it at all possible, and you'd be using a lot of Haskell anyway. So it goes - the Law of Equivalent Exchange.

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