Posted in 2023
A Sphinx directive for social media embeds
- 15 February 2023
I often want to link to social and other types of web-based media in my Sphinx documentation and blog. Rather than embedding it all in custom HTML code, I decided to write a little wrapper to turn it into a directive.
It’s called {socialpost}, and it works with Twitter, Mastodon, and YouTube links.
Report from FOSDEM23: beautiful chaos in a conference
- 06 February 2023
I recently attended FOSDEM 2023, my first FOSDEM! I had heard of the conference before, but hadn’t really looked into it too much. Fortunately, after some urging from friends and social media, I took a deeper look and decided I should join to see what all the fuss was about.
Here are a few things that I noticed while I was there.
Bundle extensions with your Sphinx theme
- 19 January 2023
Sphinx is great because it has a ton of useful extensions that let you grow its functionality. However, a downside of this is that users have to actually learn about those extensions and activate them manually. It’s not hard, but it’s a non-trivial amount of discovery work.
One way to solve this is for themes to bundle extensions on their own. This way they can include functionality via an extension rather than writing custom code on their own.