Casyfill.github.io — personal site

My personal site: project write-ups, talks, papers, and a few reflective pieces. A static site built with Pelican and a customized, Tufte-style theme (a narrow reading column with right-hand margin notes).

Stack

• Pelican (Python) for static generation.
• theme_tufte/ — a customized FLEX theme: Tokyo Night palette with a light/dark toggle, Inter + JetBrains Mono, and MathJax for LaTeX.
• uv for dependency management (pyproject.toml, uv.lock). Requires Python 3.11+.
• ipynb2pelican for rendering notebooks (pulled as a submodule when present).

Develop

Analytics

The live site uses GoatCounter — lightweight, privacy-oriented pageview analytics (paths, referrers, browsers, locations). No cookies, no cross-site tracking; bots that identify themselves are ignored.

The tracking script is in theme_tufte/templates/base.html and loads on every built page. Dashboard: casyfill.goatcounter.com.

Hits are sent on page load; the dashboard aggregates them about every 10 seconds (GoatCounter FAQ). Local previews (make serve) count too unless the script is blocked (adblockers often block gc.zgo.at).

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Casyfill/Casyfill.github.io
cd Casyfill.github.io

Install dependencies, build, and preview:

uv sync        # create .venv and install
make html      # build the site into output/
make serve     # preview at http://localhost:8000  (make devserver to auto-rebuild)

Deploy

Pushing to master triggers the GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/main.yml): it builds with uv run pelican ... -s publishconf.py and deploys the result to GitHub Pages.

Layout

• content/ — pages and posts in Work/, AI/, Personal/, Others/. Folder sets the category, but URLs stay flat and slug-based (/slug/).
• pelicanconf.py — config and the curated NAV_GROUPS sidebar.
• theme_tufte/ — the theme (templates/, static/).
• docs/roadmap.md — what's shipped and what's next. IDEAS.md — unscoped post ideas.