Move site to Hugo

.circleci/config.yml

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+version: 2
+jobs:
+  build:
+    docker:
+      # TODO: Replace with a hugo dedicated build image
+      - image: alpine:latest
+    working_directory: /cpssd.net
+    environment:
+      - HUGO_VERSION: "0.44"
+    steps:
+      - run:
+          name: "Install OS dependencies"
+          command: apk add -U wget git openssh-client
+      - checkout
+      - run:
+          name: "Download Hugo"
+          command: /cpssd.net/.circleci/install.sh
+      - run:
+          name: "Build Site"
+          command: HUGO_ENV=production hugo -v
+      - run:
+          name: "Deploy if on master"
+          command: if [ $CIRCLE_BRANCH = 'master' ]; then /cpssd.net/.circleci/deploy.sh; fi

.circleci/deploy.sh

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+DEPLOY_DIR=deploy
+
+git config --global push.default simple
+git config --global user.email $(git --no-pager show -s --format='%ae' HEAD)
+git config --global user.name $CIRCLE_USERNAME
+
+git clone -q --branch=gh-pages $CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL $DEPLOY_DIR
+
+cd $DEPLOY_DIR
+mv ../public/* .
+
+git add -f .
+git commit -m "Build $CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM [ci skip]" || true
+git push -f

.circleci/install.sh

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+HUGO_DOWNLOAD=hugo_${HUGO_VERSION}_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
+
+set -x
+set -e
+
+# Install Hugo if not already cached or upgraded an old version
+if [ ! -e /bin/hugo ] || ! [[ `hugo version` =~ v${HUGO_VERSION} ]]; then
+  wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGO_VERSION}/${HUGO_DOWNLOAD}
+  tar xvzf ${HUGO_DOWNLOAD} hugo -C /bin/
+  rm ${HUGO_DOWNLOAD}
+fi

.gitignore

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-.sass-cache
-.DS_Store
-_site
-node_modules
+public/

licence.md → LICENSE.md

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-## Released under MIT Licence
-
-The Emerald theme for Jekyll is Copyright (c) 2015 Jacopo Rabolini
+Copyright (c) 2018 CPSSD Students
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
-THE SOFTWARE.
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

README.md

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+# cpssd.net
+
+
+This is an unoffical hub for CPSSD, because the real website is very static,
+full of typos, inaccessible to any of us, and just generally dense and formal.
+
+---
+
+## Running
+
+If you want to run the website locally make sure you have [Hugo][1] installed
+and run
+```
+hugo server
+```
+
+[1]: https://gohugo.io
+
+---
+
+## Contributing
+
+Feel free to submit pull requests, make issues, and edit anything and everything.
+
+Anybody can add a post to the blog. Just create a new file in `content/blog/`,
+probably prefix it with a year if its a recurring event or something. You can
+just copy the definition at the top from another file.
+
+If you are creating a top level file, make sure to add `type: 'root-page'` if
+you want it to be in the menu
+
+### Editing your info in `/students`
+
+There is a file `data/students.yaml` containing all the links to your sites.
+If you want to create another column you can do so in
+`themes/cpssd/layouts/shortcodes/student-table.html`, but probably only do it
+if there are a lot of people on some platform (say Twitter is no longer cool
+and everybody switches to MySpace)
+
+---
+
+## Deployment
+
+The website is automatically published to `gh-pages` by CircleCI, the branch
+should not be edited by hand. To prevent Github complaining about `CNAME` file
+in forks, the file is automatically added before CircleCI commits to `gh-pages`.

config.yaml

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+baseURL: https://cpssd.net
+languageCode: en-ie
+title: The Unofficial CPSSD Homepage
+theme: cpssd
+params:
+  description: |
+    Computational Problem Solving and Software Development (CPSSD) is an
+    undergraduate computing course in Dublin City University. It is aimed at
+    applicants with prior programming experience, and is generally the hippest
+    place to be this side of Ballymaloe.
+  links:
+    - name: Learn More
+      location: /about
+    - name: Students
+      location: /students

content/about.md

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+---
+title: 'About'
+type: 'root-page'
+---
+# About CPSSD
+Computational Problem Solving and Software Development (CPSSD) is an
+undergraduate computing course in [Dublin City University][1] that requires
+applicants to have prior knowledge of programming. This means that students
+can save time re-learning the basisc, and jump straight into making some
+[Cool Things][2].
+
+The course [had][3] a special admission procedure, Applicants do not need
+to worry about points, but must submit a portfolio, pass an interview, achieve
+the minimum DCU requirements, and pass honours maths.
+
+# About This Site
+The [official CPSSD site][4] (now dead) described the course in details. It was
+very dense, formal, with many typos, and with no way for us to edit them. Did
+we mention its now gone too?
+
+This site exists to give friendlier introduction to CPSSD, from the viewpoint
+of the students, remembering how good of a course it was. It was not and is not
+in any way official or endorsed by DCU.
+
+[1]: https://dcu.ie
+[2]: /projects
+[3]: /blog/rip
+[4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170720163904/http://www.computing.dcu.ie/undergraduate/pssd/computational-problem-solving-software-development-cpssd

content/blog/2017-hashcode.md

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+---
+date: "2017-02-26T00:00:00Z"
+title: CPSSD Tackles Hashcode 2017
+---
+
+Google's [Hashcode][1] qualification round took
+place on the 23rd of February, and lots of CPSSD first and second years crowded
+in the DCU Hashcode hub to compete.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All set go here <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hashcode2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hashcode2017</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DublinCityUni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DublinCityUni</a> <a href="https://t.co/mDsjZozG6K">pic.twitter.com/mDsjZozG6K</a></p>&mdash; AIPO (@DCU_AIPO) <a href="https://twitter.com/DCU_AIPO/status/834822357680263169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
+<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+The Hashcode online round consists of one large optimisation problem tackled
+over four hours. This year's problem involved trying to optimally store videos
+in caches of a fixed size in order to reduce the latency when large bunches of
+videos are requested by specific endpoints. It was more interesting than it
+sounds, I swear.
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How confident are we? Yes.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hashcode2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hashcode2017</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Google?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Google</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dcucomputing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dcucomputing</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DublinCityUni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DublinCityUni</a> <a href="https://t.co/jw91i7DoWm">pic.twitter.com/jw91i7DoWm</a></p>&mdash; Lucas Savva (@m1cr0m4n) <a href="https://twitter.com/m1cr0m4n/status/834817081434570753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
+<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+
+We stalwart students of CPSSD dived in. The team `Three Weeks`
+([Brandon Ibbotson][2] and [Lucas Savva][3]) finished with a hearty score of
+1,635,420, enough for 1,207th place globally and 17th place in Ireland.
+Meanwhile, [Noah Donnelly][4] and [Cian Ruane][5] in team of
+`'"><script>alert()</script>` finished with 2,416,068 points, making us the
+highest scoring team in Ireland, and coming 164th worldwide.
+[Cian wrote some words about how we did it][6].
+
+We had a lot of fun, and I'm very thankful to Gary Conway and the DCU School
+of Computing for organising to host a hub in DCU, and providing pizza-based
+sustenance to us during the competition. Fingers crossed that next year DCU
+returns to cheekily pass out UCC in the final hour.
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Provisional Irish tables in! Congrats to our boys in the #2 spot, and to <a href="https://twitter.com/iandioch">@iandioch</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CianLR">@CianLR</a>, our venerable Dublin rivals in #1. <a href="https://t.co/clzfPKf1L3">pic.twitter.com/clzfPKf1L3</a></p>&mdash; UCC Netsoc (@UCCNetsoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/UCCNetsoc/status/834886735372955650">February 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
+<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+Le bród mór ⁊ gach dea-ghuí,
+
+[Noah Ó Donnaile][4]
+
+[1]: http://hashcode.withgoogle.com
+[2]: http://github.com/byxor
+[3]: https://github.com/m1cr0man
+[4]: http://noah.needs.money
+[5]: http://binarysear.ch
+[6]: http://binarysear.ch/competitions/2017/02/25/hashcode2017.html

content/blog/2017-kattis.md

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+---
+date: "2017-04-07T00:00:00Z"
+title: Students in CPSSD Provide 72% of Ireland's Total Score on Kattis
+---
+
+[Kattis][1] is an online judge for competitive programming
+problems, that some CPSSD students have been using to practise for various
+competitions. You can read about our success at [2017's HashCode][2],
+for example.
+
+The website includes a list of problems, of varying degrees of difficulty.
+When a user solves a problem, they get between 1 and 10 points based on how
+hard that problem is; the harder the problem, the higher the points. The
+website then shows how each user ranks to others on a global scale, and also
+others in the same university and country.
+
+However, Kattis also uses the scores of individuals in a university or country
+to get a combined score for that group. It then ranks universities against each
+other, and countries against each other.
+
+Because of the hard work of several DCU students, including CPSSDs, Dublin City
+University has become the [number one university in Ireland][3] on the site, and
+just today became the [50th placed university in the world][4].
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="ga"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Did some work on <a href="https://t.co/9AcbsGqtsK">https://t.co/9AcbsGqtsK</a>; <a href="https://twitter.com/DublinCityUni">@DublinCityUni</a> is now the #50 university in the world there (and best in Ireland by miles) ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/jA2QqKtq7c">pic.twitter.com/jA2QqKtq7c</a></p>&mdash; noah ó ☭onnaile (@iandioch) <a href="https://twitter.com/iandioch/status/850157784851197952">7 Aibreán 2017</a></blockquote>
+<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+In fact, DCU is the only Irish university in the top 100, and is the 21st placed
+in Europe. Trinity College comes next, at 156th place globally. Out of our
+neighbouring universities in Britain and Northern Ireland, only Edinburgh and
+Oxford are ranked better than DCU.
+
+Ireland as a whole has also risen up [the rankings][5] recently, and is
+currently the 27th placed country in the world, just behind France. It may
+soon pass out France too - vive la révolution!
+
+I decided to do some research to measure how much impact CPSSD students had in
+raising the reputation of Ireland and of DCU on Kattis. The website is kind
+enough to [explain its ranking algorithm in detail][6]. In short, here is what
+it does to measure a group's combined score:
+
+- It takes the individual scores of everyone in the group, and sorts them.
+- A formula is given to provide the fraction of each member in the group's score
+  that should be added to the combined score. The higher you are in the group,
+  the more of your score is taken into account in calculating the combined
+  score.
+- For example, the first placed person in the group adds 20% of their score to
+  the combined amount, while the second placed person adds 16% of their score.
+- It adds together each individual score multiplied by its above fraction to get
+  a final answer.
+
+I wrote [a script][7] to measure how much of Ireland's total score is provided
+by CPSSD students. Here are the results:
+
+Irish Rank|Individual Score|% Added|# Added|Cumulative Total|Name
+---|---|---|---|---|---
+#1|433.8|20.0%|86.76|86.76|Noah Ó Donnaile
+#2|307.6|16.0%|49.22|135.98|Cian Ruane
+#3|290.4|12.8%|37.17|173.15|Stefan Kennedy
+#7|145.9|5.2%|7.65|180.80|Brandon Ibbotson
+#29|13.0|0.0%|0.01|180.80|Ross O'Sullivan
+#30|9.6|0.0%|0.00|180.80|Cliodhna Harrison
+#31|7.2|0.0%|0.00|180.81|Ciaran Murphy
+#35|5.8|0.0%|0.00|180.81|Lucas Savva
+#39|3.8|0.0%|0.00|180.81|Oskar McDermott
+
+
+The leftmost number is each person's ranking on the Irish leaderboard. Their
+score follows, then the percentage of this score that is added to the combined
+Irish score. Following is the actual value of this contribution, and then
+Ireland's score so far, consisting of this number and all previous CPSSD's
+contributions. Finally is the name of each person. At the end, the total score
+provided by CPSSD students is output, followed by Ireland's total score, and
+then the percentage of this score that the CPSSD score makes up.
+
+You can see here that right now, CPSSDs provide a total of 180.81 of Ireland's
+250.80 points - that is 72% of Ireland's total score!
+
+It is clear that CPSSD has managed to gather some talented students, as I
+believe was its aim. However, while individually many of us are undoubtedly
+talented, what has struck me is that the competition and collaberation available
+when we are together is the real catalyst. This could be summed up in the saying
+"the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", but I think the following is
+more exciting:
+
+> "Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of
+> interrelations" - Karl Marx
+
+Of course, this does not apply just to CPSSD, but also to the wider DCU
+community. As such, here is a similar table, but including everyone in the top
+50 in Ireland from Dublin City University:
+
+Irish Rank|Individual Score|% Added|# Added|Cumulative Total|Name
+---|---|---|---|---|---
+#1|433.8|20.0%|86.76|86.76|Noah Ó Donnaile
+#2|307.5|16.0%|49.20|135.96|Cian Ruane
+#3|290.4|12.8%|37.17|173.13|Stefan Kennedy
+#4|263.9|10.2%|27.02|200.15|Ciara Godwin
+#5|165.4|8.2%|13.55|213.70|Niall Lyons
+#7|145.9|5.2%|7.65|221.35|Brandon Ibbotson
+#14|55.0|1.1%|0.60|221.96|Michal Durinik
+#18|38.2|0.5%|0.17|222.13|Chris Dowling
+#21|33.3|0.2%|0.08|222.21|Tom Doyle
+#29|13.0|0.0%|0.01|222.21|Ross O'Sullivan
+#30|9.6|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Cliodhna Harrison
+#31|7.2|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Ciaran Murphy
+#33|6.2|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Han McKenna
+#35|5.8|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Lucas Savva
+#37|5.5|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Adlan Djimani
+#39|3.8|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Oskar McDermott
+#41|3.5|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Marin Bivol
+#41|3.5|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Tríona Barrow
+#46|2.2|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Mark Andrade
+#49|1.0|0.0%|0.00|222.22|Daniel Asofiei
+
+
+DCU makes up almost 90% of Ireland's score on Kattis, at 222.22 of Éire's
+250.80 points - I think that's pretty great!
+
+These numbers will get more out of date as time goes on, and as DCU and Ireland
+climb the ranks further (fingers crossed). I look forward to making another post
+in the future when DCU is a top-10 university :)
+
+Ádh mór leat,
+
+[Noah Ó Donnaile][8]
+
+[1]: https://open.kattis.com
+[2]: /blog/2017-hashcode
+[3]: https://open.kattis.com/countries/IRL
+[4]: https://open.kattis.com/ranklist/universities
+[5]: https://open.kattis.com/ranklist/countries
+[6]: https://open.kattis.com/help/ranklist
+[7]: https://gist.github.com/iandioch/ac633cf2e130b050ee1f6a7a565b6da2
+[8]: http://noah.needs.money

content/blog/rip.md

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+---
+date: "2017-03-01T00:00:00Z"
+title: CPSSD Taking No New Entries
+---
+
+*Tá CPSSD marbh, go maire `<TBD>`*.
+
+On the 17th of November, all the current students of CPSSD (née PSSD) receieved an email from Rory O'Connor, the Head of the School of Computing in DCU, detailing the suspension of the course. Unfortunately, the email had the bog-standard TOS at the bottom of all university emails warning me not to share it here (curse non-free-as-in-speech licences). 
+
+It described that:
+
+- There will be no first year CPSSD group in 2017/2018.
+- Everyone currently in the course will progress as normal.
+- If a first year CPSSD student fails, they can't repeat the year. They can however transfer into the DC121 programme, a BSc. in Computer Applications (DCU's normal software development degree).
+
+[CPSSD was subtly rescinded from the CAO handbook around the same time](https://web.archive.org/web/20161214003629/http://www2.cao.ie/handbook/handbook/important_changes.php). It was very hard to find any authoritative page, or any online mention at all, that CPSSD was no longer accepting entries. DCU have not made any clear announcement of it.
+
+[I wrote some more details and some healthy speculation about the whole situation on my personal blog when it happened](http://mycode.doesnot.run/2016/12/12/rip-cpssd/). I forgot to mention it here too.
+
+Let's hope that CPSSD resurfaces in the future, or that another university picks up the slack and offers a similar advanced course in computing. The now-limited-edition current students of CPSSD are proof that there is a niche for it.
+
+Le brón mór ⁊ dóchas beag,
+
+[Noah Ó Donnaile](http://noah.needs.money)