Blot turns a folder into a website

Post by _0vzt » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 9:05 PM UTC

freetonik wrote: post #4

I briefly contributed to Blot (its code is Public Domain [1]). David keeps working on Blot constantly, and it's pretty cool to see the progress changelog with direct mapping to git commits [2]. 1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot 2. https://blot.im/news

Post by dgam » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 9:14 PM UTC

Post by samstave » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 9:17 PM UTC

Nition wrote: post #32

dangwu wrote: post #10

We've come full circle

Soon we may even be able to put a website into a folder.

Post by nonrandomstring » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 9:22 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #18

nonrandomstring wrote: post #14

Haven't tried blot, but I discovered that with a basic stylesheet "tree -H" can be super useful.

Show ?

     -H baseHREF

     Turn on HTML output, including HTTP references. Useful for ftp sites.
     baseHREF gives the base ftp location when using HTML
     output. That is, the local directory may be `/local/ftp/pub', but
     it must be referenced as `ftp://hostname.organization.domain/pub'
     (baseHREF should be `ftp://hostname.organization.domain').
     Hint: don't use ANSI lines with this option, and don't give more
     than one directory in the directory list. If you wish to use
     colors via CSS style-sheet, use the -C option in addition to this
     option to force color output.

     -T title
     Sets the title and H1 header string in HTML output mode.

Post by slashink » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 9:33 PM UTC

dgam wrote: post #33

I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators