Andrii Serhiienko's Weblog

Zola Documentation

2026-08-15T12:40:00+02:00

The documentation for the static site generator this weblog runs on. This is a demo blogmark: the title links out to the external URL, and the via in the front matter becomes the attribution link at the end of the commentary.

Hello, weblog

2026-08-15T09:30:00+02:00

Hello, weblog. This is a demo entry — short on purpose, so you can see how a short Entry renders in full on the front page, with no truncation.

This one is also flagged as highlighted = true, which is why it shows up in the Highlights sidebar on the right. Delete this post and the other demo posts, and start writing for real.

How this site is built

2026-08-14T21:55:00+02:00

This is a demo entry — long on purpose. It shows what happens to a long Entry on the front page: everything before the  marker below is shown as the summary, and the rest is cut off with a word-count link.

Why a weblog

2026-08-13T18:10:00+02:00

This is a demo entry — a medium-length one with no  marker, so it renders in full on the front page and then gets cut off at the truncation threshold. Wait — no. Without the marker, the front page shows the entire body, whatever its length; the marker is the only truncation mechanism. That is the point of this post: the author decides where the front-page summary ends, not the theme.

Why a weblog at all? Because writing in public is the cheapest forcing function for thinking clearly. Posts here will be uneven and incomplete; that is fine. The archive is the product.

Tera Templates

2026-08-12T23:15:00+02:00

The template engine Zola uses — and the one generating the very page you are reading. A demo blogmark without a via field, so no attribution link appears.

Zola's `` marker defines the page summary

2026-08-12T21:00:00+02:00

Today I learned: in Zola, a page's summary is everything before the  comment in the markdown — or the entire content if the marker is absent. This is a demo TIL; the topic field is what groups TILs on the /til/ index page.

OCaml community is much smaller than Haskell community

2026-08-11T09:05:00+02:00

Today I learned: OCaml community is much smaller than Haskell community. I am surprised. I alwas considered Haskell to be academia and OCaml to be wide-known and wide-spread practical language. Apparently, it is the opposite - OCaml is way more niche than Haskell.