https://www.anarch157a.com/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:anarch+nospam@replace_this_by_the_blog_domain.com">Anarch157a</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png"></a>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:27:21 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.anarch157a.com/posts/migration-to-nikola/Anarch157a<h3>New static site generator: Nikola</h3> <p>After a long while, I decided to start writing in this blog again, but I was not happy with Pelican, the static site generator I was using before. So I started shopping arround for something more to my liking. In the end I decided to give <a href="https://getnikola.com/">Nikola</a> a try.</p> <p>The best feature I've seen is the much better command line tool to manage the site. Both Pelican and Nikola provide a command to generate the site, but the diferences are stiking. In Pelican, the CLI tool generates the static site and provides a basic HTTP server so you can test the site while writing, not to mention the configuration, which requires different config files for development and publishing.</p> <p>Nikola on the other hand, adopts the <code>command &lt;verb&gt;</code> format that became so popular this century (it's the same paradigm used by other popular tools like git, docker, openssl, etc.). This tool has verbs to help set up a website, start new posts/pages with metadata pre-filled, publish the site, manage plugins and themes, and other goodies.</p> <p>Well, this is it. Hope you enjoy.</p>blogmigrationhttps://www.anarch157a.com/posts/migration-to-nikola/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:06:13 GMT