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An overview of the inner workings and technical decisions behind this website, including my reasons for choosing [djot](https://djot.net/) over markdown, rendering LaTeX quickly, templating without needless allocations, and more.
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# The realm's secrets

## Djot (why not markdown?)
- extensionability
- writing my own html generator
- templating
- metadata

## Hosting
- hosted on my nixos server
- there's interesting stuff happening there too, but that deserves it's own post

## LaTeX
- tried using `cached` with `latexmlmath`, but results were slow.
- ended up using the `pulldown-latex` crate.