Nikola importing from ikiwiki

Another day, another thing. No, I don't plan to make this a write-a-blog-post-a-day thing, so don't hold your breath.

To be honest, 16 years ago I decided to write a blog, a static one, and way back then I chose ikiwiki as the builder. I think that aside a few things here and there, I have barely touched the setup ever since, and sometimes it shows. This time I'm looking for blog posts to show potential employers the kind of things I do for money and fun. Unluckily ikiwiki only shows 20 posts in the main page and by default semes not to provide any navigation to older posts. I have a tag cloud with links to tag pages, but I really wanted to go over them all to pick the best for each position I apply to. Meanwhile, I have been thinking about moving to something more modern, and since I had already played with it, I chose nikola to see if at least I can come up with a local version I can browse and eventually to replace ikiwiki with it.

So the plan was simple: install nikola (not in Debian, so venv+pip), copy the posts over from ikiwiki (they're all a special type of MarkDown with embedded ikiwiki directives), build the site, browse. Simple, right? should take just a couple of minutes, right?

You know the answer.