Isaac Bythewood's Blog
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The Rust ecosystem is unreasonably good
A second pass on the Rust port of my blog. I deleted the chromium PDF subprocess and replaced it with embedded Typst. Notes on axum, comrak, minijinja, and a typesetting compiler that ships as a crate.
2026-05-09
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Using CodeMirror to show formatted code in Wagtail
Going through all the steps to use CodeMirror with Wagtail to show formatted code on the frontend of your site.
2022-06-11
Adding dark mode with automatic system preference selection
Creating a dark, or light, version of your website may seem like a daunting task if you think you need an entirely new color pallet. It's 2022 though and we have the widely supported invert CSS filter.
2022-07-02
Caddy configuration for Django with some sensible defaults
Caddy is a great web server with sensible defaults but there a few things that I need to configure to have perfect synergy with Django.
2022-06-04