Thibault Martin

I post more and more content on my website. What was visible at glance then is now more difficult to look for. I wanted to implement search, but it is a static website. It means that everything is built once, and then published somewhere as final, immutable pages. I can’t send a request for search and get results in return. Or that’s what I thought! Pagefind is a neat javascript library that does two things: It produces an index of the content right after building the static site.

I was a huge fan of Niri already. It’s a scrolling tiling window manager. Roughly: When I open an app it takes the full height and a pre-configured width on the screen. When I open more apps and the screen was already full, it pushes the existing apps off screen. It can stack windows in columns to have a more compact view It means that windows always take the optimal amount of space, and they’re very neatly organized. It’s extremely pleasant to use and keyboard friendly.

I created the website you’re reading with VS Code. Behind the scenes I use Astro, a static site generator that gets out of the way while providing nice conveniences. Using VS Code was a no-brainer: everyone in the industry seems to at least be familiar with it, every project can be opened with it, and most projects can get enhancements and syntactic helpers in a few clicks. In short: VS Code is free, easy to use, and widely adopted. A Rustacean colleague kept singing Helix’s praises.