Clutching at Security Blankets

Lessons learned while working in Information Security.

I’m having a good time figuring out how to build a static page blog using Jekyll, but there are a few pieces missing for it to really do what I need.

First, I’m trying to use Tufte.css for the look and feel of the pages because I haven’t seen anything more readable or pleasing to the eyes. Unfortunately, certain features like sidenotes and marginnotes require some funky inline HTML to work, and I haven’t figure out how to embed them automatically in the Markdown or Textile post data sources. That said, I can just embed the raw HTML in Markdown content if I’m OK with all that structure mixed in to my content.

So it looks like I’m going to need to build a custom filter to allow me to use simple directives and have them convert into appropriate sidenote and marginnote HTML. Update: Done. See this post for details.

Second, given how much of the work I do is in BigFix Relevance Language and BigFix Action Script, I’m going to have to extend the pygments syntax highlighter with a custom language lexer for those. And then there will be the fun of designing a syntax highlighting stylesheet that doesn’t pollute my pages with a rainbow of fruity highlighting modes.

Both of these things are fairly new to me, so I’m looking forward to figuring out how to do it.

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