Federal Farmer

Pelican is a static site generator written in Python.

In this blog post, you'll learn how to create your first Pelican site and how to style it using a custom theme. This tutorial assumes you have a good grasp on HTML, CSS, and basic command line input. Familiarity with the Jinja2 templating engine is not required but nice to have.

Despite being written in Python, Pelican only forces you to interact with Python via its config file - so aside from using pip and setting up a proper venv (which we'll cover in this tutorial), you don't really have to know …

Obligatory Hello World post. Welcome to my blog!

I'm a software developer and yeoman homesteader who's come to understand that there are no political solutions to the technocratic dystopia now facing the Western world. This website is an anthology of how I'm dealing with that reality, and moreover, how I feel these two particular skillsets (homesteading and software development) are uniquely poised to navigate our current societal, spiritual, and monetary predicaments.

Of course, they're not the only two skillsets capable of altering the trajectory of mankind's rapid descent into despotism. But they're the ones I'm most familiar with, so that's …