Levi Neuwirth
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Two specificity collisions, both invisible in the markup and both my fault for styling with bare class selectors on a surface that typography.css owns through #markdownBody: #markdownBody :is(h1..h6) (1,0,1) beat .vita-entry-title (0,1,0) #markdownBody p + p (1,0,2) beat .vita-role etc. (0,1,0) So entry titles rendered at 1.45rem sans with 2.475rem heading margins instead of 1rem serif — the "too much space" and the odd text sizes — and every second paragraph in a card picked up the 1.5em essay prose indent, which is the strange horizontal offset on the date lines. now.css never hits either, because Now uses no heading elements inside its cards and emits one paragraph per card. The vita keeps its headings, since a record page wants a real document outline, and pays with specificity: every rule is now #markdownBody-scoped, and card paragraphs reset text-indent outright. Also restructured onto the layout item-card.css already establishes: title and date share a baseline with the date flush right, and role, location and GPA collapse onto one line beneath it, instead of stacking title / role / lone indented date. Dates moved from <time> to <span> — half of them are "Fall 2024", "expected 2028" or "Present", which have no valid datetime value, and a <time> without one is worse than none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUGesXiMmACsLBTGG1xuEU |
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README.md
levineuwirth.org
Personal site of Levi Neuwirth — essays, blog posts, poetry, fiction, and music.
Built with Hakyll and Pandoc,
with a custom build system in build/ and a Haskell + JS + Python toolchain.
Quickstart
make build # one-shot production build into _site/
make dev # dev build (drafts visible) + local server on :8000
make watch # Hakyll live-reload dev server (drafts visible)
make clean # cabal run site -- clean
make deploy # clean → build → sign → push → rsync to VPS
make build always runs make clean implicitly when invoked from make deploy.
For day-to-day work, prefer make dev (which serves the site on
http://localhost:8000) or make watch (Hakyll's live-reload preview server,
which rebuilds on save and serves the site locally).
Run make build any time you add or replace binary assets (JPEG/PNG
figures, PDFs, music assets). make dev and make watch skip the
convert-images.sh / pdf-thumbs preprocessing steps, so a fresh JPEG
will have no .webp companion and a fresh PDF will have no thumbnail
until a full make build regenerates them. Once the companions exist
they survive subsequent make dev runs.
Optional features
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Similar-links and embeddings.
tools/embed.pyprecomputes page-level embeddings for the "Related" block. To enable:uv sync # creates .venv with sentence-transformers, faiss-cpuThe build silently skips embedding when
.venvis absent. -
Client-side semantic search. Downloads a quantized ONNX model used by
static/js/semantic-search.js(run once; files are gitignored):make download-model -
Image conversion.
make buildcallstools/convert-images.shto produce.webpcompanions next to every JPEG/PNG. Requirescwebp(libwebpon Arch,webpon Debian/Ubuntu). -
PDF thumbnails.
make pdf-thumbsgenerates first-page thumbnails for PDFs instatic/papers/usingpdftoppm(poppleron Arch,poppler-utilson Debian/Ubuntu). Skipped silently when missing.
Configuration
.env (gitignored, copy from .env.example) holds the GitHub PAT and
the VPS rsync target consumed by make deploy. Never commit it.
Repository layout
build/— Haskell build system (Hakyll rules, Pandoc filters, contexts). Seebuild/Filters/for the Pandoc AST transforms (sidenotes, wikilinks, transclusion, score embedding, viz, …).content/— authored Markdown (essays, blog, poetry, fiction, music).templates/— Hakyll/Pandoc HTML templates.static/— CSS, JS, fonts, images, vendored PDF.js.tools/— Python tooling (embeddings, importers) and shell scripts.data/— generated and source data (commonplace.yaml, annotations.json, bibliographies, similar-links.json).nginx/— vhost snippets shipped to the VPS (security-headers.conf,static-assets.conf,popup-proxy.conf). The live vhost on the VPS is the source of truth; seenginx/vhost.conf.examplefor the canonical structure and the include order these snippets expect.
Architecture pointers
build/Site.hsis the Hakyll rules entry point.build/Patterns.hsdefines canonical content patterns shared by Backlinks, Authors, Tags, and Site.build/Compilers.hswires the Pandoc filter chain into Hakyll.build/Filters/Images.hsdoes WebP<picture>wrapping; requires the.webpcompanions produced bytools/convert-images.sh.
License
See LICENSE.