- 018 How to stack
- 017 Brainf___ machine
- 016 Formal verification
- 015 How to count
- 014 Connecting FPGA to a computer
- 013 Binary numeric screen mode
- 012 VESA output by FPGA
- 011 Programming Xilinx Spartan 6
- 010 Learning basics of Verilog
- 009 Improvements in the blog engine
- 008 Migrating to AWS
- 007 LCD screens
- 006 Joule thief
- 005 Hall effect sensors
- 004 Constant acceleration revisited
- 003 Digital pendulum
- 002 Driving stepper motor
- 001 Play with forth and STM32
- 000 Hello world
Improvements in the blog engine
In the last blog entry I was writing how I generate pages of this blog with Python scripts running on AWS Lambda. Since that time I did a few improvements. I will shortly write about them in this follow up article.
Layers of lambda
When you look at the picture from the last article showing Lambda code editor you can see big mess in the left pane. There are many directories of external libraries visible. What's worse, saving Lambda takes a lot of time. What's even worse, when I added one more library for syntax highlighting, I have reached the limit and visual editor was disabled.
Why Amazon did unusable editor? Am I doing something wrong? I asked myself. And soon I found the solution. It's better to use layers to store libraries. These can be uploaded once and shared by many Lambda functions. When using layers to store libraries there is no problem with the editor.
Syntax highlighting
For markdown I use... Markdown library. It has extensions mechanism and one of the extensions does syntax highlighting. Actually, it integrates Pygments library to do the job. I was surprised to see that it supports Forth highlighting out of a box!
RSS feed
On my phone I use RSS aggregator to follow a few of my favorite feeds. If you also like RSS feeds, now you can stay up to date with my blog!
For this I use rfeed library.
Final thoughts
I like what I did ;-). If you would like to create similar approach for creating website the code is on GitHub, as usually.