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Published on June 6, 2017

Finally I have set up my new web site here, at https://markkarpov.com. I plan to post more often than before and also I have the plans to publish new tutorials and probably other sort of content as well, such as screencasts.

So far I have migrated my old posts (previously located at https://mrkkrp.github.io), collected links to all my tutorials, and made an overview of my active open source projects.

You may certainly expect some posts related to optimization of my existing projects, such as text-metrics, which I’m migrating to pure Haskell right now. Also, in case you do not know yet, Megaparsec 6 is coming this summer, so there will be posts about the related development as well.

Megaparsec tutorials will be probably moved to this site soon, so I can manage all my tutorials through one system. After all, I’m still the sole contributor to Megaparsec’s official tutorials, so it makes sense to move the tutorials to my site. Since the tutorials is the only useful content on Megaparsec’s site, it will be shut down after the migration and the tutorial links will redirect to new locations on this site.

In case you’re interested how this site is built, I’ll tell you ;-) This time I used a combo of shake, stache, and pandoc instead of Hakyll. I’m quite satisfied so far, because I managed to build a more custom build system where I control most things via combination of YAML files (and YAML snippets embedded in Markdown) and Stache templates, passing the Values directly from one layer to another. This way I can edit YAML and templates and control almost everything without touching the build system written in Haskell. I did not make the repo public because it contains some sensitive data such as Ansible config, which I would like to keep secure.