🏕️ Campfire

A tiny static site generator, greatly inspired by Zola.

Why?

Inspired by Tom Critchlow's article on Building a Digital Garden, there's three distinct concepts of information flows:

• Streams
• Campfires
• Gardens

While my personal notes are, for a lack of public access, not quite a digital garden, I very much would benefit from bringing my blog and my notes closer together.

The result is 🏕 Campfire: a tool to stitch my collection of notes into more worthwhile, more curated stories to share.

With a few minor, Markdown-related inconveniences where GitHub Flavored Markdown doesn't support footnotes, this also allows me to view (and presumably edit) my notes on GitHub.

Writing

I'm writing my notes in Obsidian, which is for the most part somewhat reasonably formatted markdown, if you disable wiki-like links.

That said, 🏕 Campfire is reasonably tool-independent, although certain choices have been made with my personal tools in mind:

• The configuration as well as created files are stored in the .campfire, which is invisible within Obsidian.
• Inline footnotes with ^[my footnote] are reasonably well-supported and are perhaps the biggest deviation from standard markdown that I'm currently actively using.
• The output is rather minimally formatted, and a work-in-progress.

Building your Site

For the example-vault included, building should be as straightforward as:

cargo install campfire
campfire -b example-vault build

Caveats

• Error handling is very spotty
• Far from idiomatic Rust code, it's more of a hands-on exercise to building your own static site generator for me