Another piece in my technology puzzle to set up a simple blog based on a static site generator is Nix - The Purely Functional Package Manager.

Hello Restructured Text!

"Hello World!" from a Markdown file.

Make it work

Getting this to work, I realized the following bits are needed:

The package markdown

This has to be installed into the Python environment. Thanks to my Nix based environment this is just a tiny tweak:

diff --git a/default.nix b …

A small snippet to get the version if the nixpkgs which are currently used. Useful when tracking down trouble and trying to reproduce things with the correct commit.