Library - a reusable piece of code. Asset - a piece of data used by code. Here is the list of assets and libraries used by this blog. Additionally the source code of this blog is available at github.

Backend

Nim is the language used to build this site. This blog is plain html, Nim serves a role of a static site generator. Besides the standard Nim library the following libraries are used:

• regex - used instead of standard re library to remove external dependency on PCRE library
• rainbow - colored output in console
• nim-markdown - transform markdown files to html
• ruby-graphviz - draw graphs with graphviz in Ruby

Fonts

• Aron Grotesque - headers
• Carlito - text content
• JetBrains Mono - code

CSS framework

Pure.css - lightweight simple framework with a little touch on design and responsiveness

Code highlighting

highlight.js - library for code highlighting with a ton of supported languages and different themes

Hosting

GitHub pages - simple free hosting for static site content like this blog

Development environment

This is a set of tools I use on day-to-day basis including when I write more code and content for this blog. This section is likely to change but I will try to keep it up-to-date.

Software

Operating system	GNU?/Linux
Distribution	Arch Linux
Package manager	yay
C compiler (Nim compiles to C)	gcc
Display server	Xorg
Window manager	i3wm
Internet browser	Firefox, Brave
Terminal	kitty
Font	Fantasque Sans Mono
Shell	Fish
Version control	git
Text editor	kakoune
Occasional text editor	Emacs
Code grepper	ripgrep
File finder	fd
Fuzzy finder	fzf

Hardware

Laptop model	Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 14″ AMD
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 4800U @ 1.8GHz, 4.2GHz max, 8 cores, 16 threads L2 4MB, L3 8MB
GPU	AMD Radeon Graphics @ 1750 MHz, 8 cores, 3.5GB, OpenGL 4.6, DirectX 12
RAM	16GB LPDDR4x-4266
SSD	M.2 2280 SSD 1TB
WiFi	802.11ax 2x2 WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0