This is my personal static blog generator written in Clojure. It converts Org-mode files to HTML for my personal website. I built it to match my writing workflow with Emacs and Org-mode. The generated static site is hosted on Digital Ocean App Platform.
The generator takes Org-mode files from the posts and pages directories, processes them through Pandoc, and applies styling and layout templates. It includes:
- Automatic conversion of Org-mode to HTML using Pandoc
- Development server
- Responsive design using Tailwind CSS
- Automatic table of contents generation
- Read time estimation
- RSS feed generation
- Support for custom pages
- Code syntax highlighting
- LaTeX rendering in the browser
posts/- Blog posts written in Org-mode
pages/- Custom static pages
src/- Clojure source code for generating the site
static/- Generated site output
css/- Tailwind CSS source files
- Pandoc for Org-mode conversion
- Clojure (1.10+)
- Node.js for Tailwind CSS processing
- Emacs with CIDER for development
# Install Node.js dependencies
npm install# In Emacs
cider-jack-in-clj
cider-eval-buffer # in org-blog.core
# This starts a file watcher that regenerates the site and reloads the REPL
# with any changes to the src/, posts/, or pages/ directories
# In a separate terminal
npx tailwindcss -i ./css/input.css -o ./static/css/output.css --watch
# Preview at http://localhost:8081I write Org-mode files in the posts/ directory using the filename format YYYY-MM-DD-title.org. After evaluating org-blog.core to generate static files, I commit changes to the repo and Digital Ocean automatically publishes the updated site.
For static pages, I place Org-mode content in the pages/ directory and create a corresponding .clj file in the org-blog.pages namespace for rendering with custom layout. Some pages skip Org-mode entirely and are written directly in Clojure using Hiccup.
The site is automatically deployed when changes are pushed to the main branch. Digital Ocean App Platform publishes all files from the static/ directory.
The code for this blog generator is provided under the MIT License:
MIT License
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