#+TITLE: Static blog with org-mode
#+AUTHOR: Yann Esposito
#+EMAIL: yann.esposito@gmail.com
#+DATE: 2019-07-04
#+KEYWORDS: programming, blog, org-mode

This is the first article using my new blog system.

Once in a while, I create a new personal website.
A long time ago, I used PHP for my first website.
I used include and took care of XHTML pages validation.
Then I used [[http://nanoc.ws][nanoc]], a ruby static website generator.
Then I switched to [[https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/][hakyll]] because I wanted to switch to a Haskell's written
tool.
Now I'll try to use [[http://orgmode.org][org-mode]] directly with [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.html][org-publish]].

* Why?

Everything started when I was hired in a place where I was given a terrible
keyboard.
After a few weeks I started to feel a lot of pain in both my wrists.
So I started to go from classical IDE to being able to use vim
correctly[fn:vim].

Then I started to work in Clojure and I heard that emacs might certainly be a
better fit for LISP dialiects.
But, I couldn't switch to an editor without vim keybindings support because they
are so great once you're used to them.
By chance it was about the same time that [[http://spacemacs.org][spacemacs]] appeared and I switched.
Is is really impressive how well the vim keybindings are supported.
Even most of the advanced vim features I used to use worked like a charm.

The first benefit of emacs is you can configure emacs with elisp.
Which unlike vimscript looks like a correct language to work with.

One unexpected benefit of emacs was [[http://orgmode.org][org-mode]].
I always heard good things about it but it took me a while to really get it and
to understand why it is so great.

If you don't know anything about org-mode, it is many things.
First imagine a Markdown but more TODO list oriented.
But along with this, emacs has a lot of helper functions to work with those
org-mode files.

One real game changer is ~org-capture~.
You can add a task quite easily while doing other work in emacs.

[fn:vim] I wrote this article to help people use vim: [[http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/][learn vim progressively]]