(Picture from Chokniti Khongchum)

I like GitHub Pages, it provides a nice little and simple free hosting. I also like their static site generators (SSG) companions:

• Hugo - used by example for perl.com (source)
• Jekyll - that I used for The ephemeral miniconf (source)

About 3 years ago, I spent some time experimenting with more advanced Hugo and Jekyll concepts (variables, config, layouts, includes, ...).

I wanted to produce a modular website with content separated from a complex structure, using parameterized includes.

The experiment also contained a commenting system powered by GitHub issues (yes!) along with a blog (it’s Jekyll after all!).
I used this effort to compare Hugo and Jekyll features (Jekyll won for me).
Then I continued by adding some content, syntax highlighting and various other things...

But why I tagged this post with #perl tag?

Because ultimately the website content is about Perl, with some generic informations and links that I tried to present in a bit "catchy" way.

After some time, I let this website aging somewhere in my GitHub private space.

Nobody asked for it, but this is finally it!

🐟 perl.fish 🐠

It’s public but I have zero plan for this.

And about the name "perl-dot-fish", I doubt I can give any explanation except that I consider that "it sounds good".

A little preview

For the very most lazy 😀, here is a little preview:

It’s also looking good on mobile.

Note: for the design skeleton, I started from rust-lang.org (license permits it), but it now has well diverged.

About the stack

• Registry: Identity Digital for the .fish (I wanted to pick a not so common nTLD)
• Registrar: OVH
• DNS: OVH
• Hosting: GitHub Pages
• Framework: Jekyll (SSG)

I built using Jekyll parameterized includes, to me it makes it both modular and a bit inelegant 😀
Website is easy to edit and the GitHub Pages setup deploys on commit.

Read the source at perlfish

It’s and experiment, probably running for about a year.

🐟 perl.fish 🐠