Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
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Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#2It's cool to see static web sites becoming popular.
As for comments (dynamic) you could integrate with discuss, or as I do wrote my own simple comments app for google app engine.
Details here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/web/feed.html
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#3Author here. Feel free to drop any comments, this was a "weekend project" as I couldn't find anything as simple as that.
By the way, I recently uploaded the code to github: https://github.com/carlesfe/bashblog and some people are using it to publish their blogs via dropbox and site44, cool!
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#4See also my little project fugitive [1] a blog engine running on top of git using hooks written in Bash (not much more than 500 lines either), well technically it's even written in bare sh.
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#5It's cool to see static web sites becoming popular. As for comments (dynamic) you could integrate with discuss, or as I do wrote my own simple comments app for google app engine. Details here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/web/feed.html
Shouldn't the link be http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/web/comments/
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#6I'm SO going to use this! If only because of the ridiculous simplicity of it all. Maybe I won't replace my main blog, but I can see this in use for something simple I've had in mind for a while.
And why did we stop using plain HTML files for simple blogs (that are self-hosted)? Do I really need a "CMS" and/or framework to spew some formatted content if I'm not even gonna have comments? I've seen blogs that use some custom Ruby app or PHP and they're just a combination of an archive index and posts.
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#7The grand-daddy of bash based static site generators: http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net
Example use: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/ (9 years)
Incidentally, the creator of nb announced that he is postponing the development of nb indefinitely last month.
OP: Do you think you might want to take up that development?
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#8The grand-daddy of bash based static site generators: http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net Example use: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/ (9 years) Incidentally, the creator of nb announced that he is postponing the development of nb indefinitely last month. OP: Do you think you might want to take up that development?
I checked nb before writing bashblog, but it's not as simple as it seems. I actually spent some hours trying to modify it to suit it to my needs, without any luck
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#9I like this. I used to have an emacs org-mode set up to edit/publish blog post (sadly just to discover that I haven't much to say in a blog). My set up allowed me to publish "data" content (mostly images) that can be linked into a post. How do you handle this with bashblog?
Re: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
#10I like this. I used to have an emacs org-mode set up to edit/publish blog post (sadly just to discover that I haven't much to say in a blog). My set up allowed me to publish "data" content (mostly images) that can be linked into a post. How do you handle this with bashblog?
It doesn't handle it. You just upload the image to a public folder in your server, then link it from your html content. All pages are edited with vim and treated as plain HTML, there is no post processing --except for adding dates, headers, etc