systems-obscure/posts/neuron-eolas-frontend.md

title	slug	date	tags
Frontend for Eòlas	/neuron-eolas-frontend/	2024-10-24	projects log eolas

I'm now publishing my zettelkasten publicly at https://thomasabishop.github.io/eolas/. I wanted to be able to access my notes from different devices and also have them in a nicer format with syntax highlighting and LaTeX support.

I'm using the Neuron static site generator which is designed specifically zettelkasten-type projects. It requires that the links and some other metadata are in a specific format. However, I wanted the publishing process to be decoupled from my actual notes and not have to make arbitrary changes to suit Neuron.

So I wrote a simple Python application (neuron-zk-generator) that copies the source notes into a specific directory and applies all necessary formatting to this copy. This generator executes locally when I push to the remote and creates a Neuron directory which is then built (via a GitHub Action) and deployed via GitHub pages.

It applies some basic CSS changes and also generates dynamic content for the home page, displaying the build ID, publication date, a page count and the most recently updated files along with an index: