Triangle BitDevs

Static site for Triangle BitDevs meetups, built with Zola.

Prerequisites

• Rust + Cargo
• just task runner

Install just with Cargo if needed:

cargo install just

Local development

From the repo root:

just install
just serve

• just install installs Zola from source: cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/getzola/zola --tag v$(cat .zola-version)
• just serve runs zola serve --open --drafts

The dev server runs at http://localhost:1111.

Build

just build

This runs:

• just build-calendar-ics (generates static/calendar.ics)
• zola build

Content workflow

Event/content pages live in content/*.md and use TOML front matter (+++).

Example front matter:

+++title = "Socratic Seminar 50"date = 2026-03-11template = "page.html"
[extra]
event_type = "socratic"add_to_calendar = truestart = "2026-03-11T22:00:00Z"end = "2026-03-12T00:00:00Z"location = "APEX 1, Fidelity Investments, 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709"+++

Notes:

• start/end are stored in UTC (Z) in content.
• Event display and ICS output are rendered in America/New_York (EST/EDT as appropriate).

Calendar helper tool

There is a small helper binary for generating event front matter:

just build-calendar-gen
just new-event

Other useful commands

• just build-calendar-ics regenerates the top-level site calendar feed at /calendar.ics.
• just check-links checks legacy Jekyll URL aliases.
• just edit opens the most recent event file.
• just update-feed-template refreshes templates/feed.xml from Zola builtins.

Zola version pinning

The Zola version is pinned in .zola-version.

• Local install (just install) uses this pinned version.
• GitHub Actions deploy uses the same pinned version.

To upgrade Zola:

1. Update .zola-version.
2. Run just install.
3. Run just build and verify output.