Gert Van Gool

Today I’ve said goodbye to reStructuredText for my website.

I have a personal preference for reStructuredText, because it has a clear spec and is beautifully integrated into the Python ecosystem. Just look at Sphinx and Read the Docs.

But my personal website remains a playground to test technology for customers. Most of the static-site generator ecosystem, like netlifyCMS, only supports Markdown. So to better support customers, let’s ignore reStructuredText for a while and focus on Markdown.

For better automation (and easier updating), I’ve added CircleCI for automated building and testing of the website. It will automatically deploy any pushes to the master into a separate git repository (to take advantage of Github Pages).

Why start blogging now? Actually, it’s basically an excuse for a new website. For a new photography website. In the meanwhile, I can dump some documents littered across my computers with tiny bits of information. »