First Sugary Taste of Spoonful

7-13-2026 nix web

yum, delicious first post of spoonful

Welcome to my first post, built with spoonful!

This is a static site generator written in Nix. Pretty cool, right?

nix

spoonful.mkSite (lib: {
  inherit lib;
  static = ./static;
  posts = builtins.sort lib.sorting.byDate (lib.importPosts ./content);
  templates = lib.importTemplates ./templates;
  metadata = {
    title = "My Blog";
    description = "A blog.";
    link = "http://127.0.0.1:9999";
  };
});

Also, I replaced pandoc with asciidoctor, so I can use adoc instead of md, which I’m very happy with. It is very hacky indeed…

Here’s the code for that:

nix

mkHTML = pkgs.callPackage (
  {
    stdenv,
    asciidoctor,
    lua5_4,
    lpeg,
    source ? "",
  }:
  let
    input = if builtins.isString source then pkgs.writeText "input.html" source else source;
  in
  stdenv.mkDerivation {
    name = "html";
    phases = [
      "buildPhase"
      "installPhase"
    ];
    buildInputs = [
      asciidoctor
      lua5_4
      lpeg
    ];
    LUA_PATH = "${scintillua}/lexers/?.lua;;";
    buildPhase = ''
      asciidoctor ${pkgs.lib.concatStringsSep " " asciidoctorArgs} -s -o raw.html ${input}
      lua ${./lua/codeblock.lua} raw.html &gt; page.html
    '';
    installPhase = ''
      mkdir $out
      cp page.html $out/
    '';
  }
) { lpeg = pkgs.lua54Packages.lpeg; };