arvidsson.io

My personal website!

This website is generated using some custom code written in Common Lisp. I’ve only tested it on Linux using SBCL.

Build the website

Build the website using Nix:

nix run

The files are placed in ./public/.

Starting the development server

The development server compiles the pages and serves the files locally using hunchentoot. The page is reloaded through websocket connections when a static file is modified, or when a tag/page definition is recompiled in the lisp image.

You’ll first need to manually pull down the artifacts for all projects that aren’t being built by Nix yet:

./fetch-deps.sh

Then, enter the Nix dev shell:

nix develop

Finally, launch sbcl, load the site system and run:

(site:start-dev)

When starting the development server, a separate system site/live is loaded which uses some extra dependencies (for watching files, serving HTTP etc).