Sphinx to Nikola

As you can likely tell, my website looks different now. For a very long time I have been using Sphinx with a custom theme for my personal website. It has served me rather well, but over the time I have been pushing it into ways that are not really how it is designed. Foremost it is a documentation generator. As such it has a hierarchical structure and does not support blog posts or RSS feeds. Some of my content is “timeless” like the study material, but other things slowly outdate and would rather fit into a blog structure. There are extensions to Sphinx that try to add these features, but I rather decided to move it to Nikola instead. ...

30. April 2020 · 7 Minuten · Martin Ueding

Personal website with Sphinx

Sphinx primarily is a documentation generator for source code, for programs. Its main focus is not on automatic documentation like Doxygen or JavaDoc, but it can do this as well. The main mode of operation is to write reStructuredText documents and compile them into HTML (or LaTeX or ePub) documents. ...

7. Januar 2015 · 4 Minuten · Martin Ueding