Solveblog

Solveblog provides the easiest way to build a blog in solveit. You can edit your dialogs in solveit and they’ll appear in your blog immediately.

Markdown messages are shown as regular text. Code, Prompt, and Raw messages and their outputs are presented in nicely formatted fences.

Getting started

In SolveIt:

1. Create an empty dialog in a new folder for your blog project
2. Run !pip install solveblog to install this package
3. Run solveblog_new() with your information:

from solveblog import * 
solveblog_new(
    name='Your Name', # Your name
    port=8000,        # Port to serve on
    email='',         # Your email (optional)
    description='',   # RSS feed description (optional)
    github='',        # GitHub handle (optional)
    twitter='',       # Twitter/X handle (optional)
    linkedin='',      # LinkedIn handle (optional)
)

4. Run !solveblog to serve your blog. The url will be printed immediately after running the command

Writing posts

You can add your own posts by adding them to public/posts/. Posts can be markdown files (.md) or solveit dialogs (.ipynb). Posts are expected to start with metadata as yaml frontmatter. In solveit dialogs these are expected to be as the first message (raw format). You can find an example post in public/posts/ after running solveblog_new().

---
title: Test Notebook Post
date: 2026-04-05
tags:
  - test
---

Writing pages

You can add your own pages by adding them to public/pages/. Pages can also be markdown files (.md) or solveit dialogs (*.ipynb). Page filenames are split on underscore (_) and the prefix is used as the sorting key. You can find an example 1_about.ipynb page after running solveblog_new().

Autorun

If you run solveblog in a terminal window it’ll run until you close the tab. To keep it running you might want to create a dialog in the AUTORUN folder (create it if it doesn’t exist). Dialogs in that folder will automatically run upon instance start, and are exempted from idle shutdown. In other words: they’ll keep running. In that dialog put a code message with the following:

!cd <your-project-dir> && solveblog

Custom domains

SolveIt supports custom domains. To make use of this feature:

1. Go to your instance settings menu in the SolveIt dashboard, and follow the instructions to update the domain:port mapping.
2. Updatesolveblog_settings.py with the chosen port.
3. Configure the DNS of your custom domain to point to solve.it.com (see below)

DNS setup

For subdomains (e.g., app.example.com): Create a CNAME record pointing to solve.it.com.

For apex/root domains (e.g., example.com): Standard CNAME records won’t work. You need a provider that supports CNAME flattening or ALIAS records:

Provider	Record Type
Cloudflare	CNAME (auto-flattened at apex)
AWS Route 53	ALIAS
Azure DNS	Alias
DNS Made Easy	ANAME
DNSimple	ALIAS
Namecheap	ALIAS
Porkbun	ALIAS

Tip

We recommend Cloudflare for DNS—just create a CNAME at the apex and it handles flattening automatically.

Warning

GoDaddy does not support CNAME flattening. Use a subdomain or switch DNS providers.

DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to propagate, though they often take effect much sooner.

Credits

Inspired by the beautiful personal website of Jack Hogan: jackhogan.net