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Nothing takes 5 minutes in software engineering. Nothing. Even the simplest things. But why do you still believe you could do it? And why does it consistently fail?

How my journey started (Part 1) With my friends we play a game on WhatsApp called "Where am I?". Someone posts a picture taken during a business trip or a holiday and the others need to guess where he/she was on the surface of the Earth. It's usually in …

Preamble: I suck at programming. In my friends group I probably am the nerdiest guy but I have been working with so many brilliant developers minds in my career that I have a low (or acute) self-esteem with regards to my programming skills. But truth is: I do develop for …

Preamble: the mechanism described here is an alternative of the classic deployment steps described here and here. The Pelican documentation is awesome, if you read it carefully. The Tips section contains information about how to deploy with GitHub Actions. Sounds cool, but what is it exactly? GitHub introduced GitHub Actions …

Here are some things I learned after a few days working with Pelican (read here an explanation about the initial setup). ghp-import The useful ghp-import tool is a non-standard git command mentioned in every article about Pelican setup. A quick look at the --help command reveals interesting options. I now …

I will explain here the steps to build your static website with Pelican and deploy it on GitHub Pages. But first, why use Pelican and not Wordpress or Dotclear, like back when I started my first blog? I was looking for: simplicity: Pelican uses markdown syntax in plain text files …