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Daily Digest for Tuesday, Dec 31, 2019

☀️ Earliest posts come first.

Steve Ivy

RT @greg_ip: Am I the only person who, upon clicking on an intriguing headline discover it’s a video or an audio podcast, navigate away? I’…

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Steve Ivy

I’ve barely blogged for 3-4 years because of the friction in doing so. Never wanted Wordpress and their ilk, and the nerdy git-powered static site generators required well, git.

So in 2020 I’m writing my own one-man toy blog software that does a very few things that I want.

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Steve Ivy

I’m calling it goldfrog,it’s going to be written in #golang, which isn’t actually important.

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Steve Ivy

Main features are that I’m the only one that can log in, there’s no admin, posting is done from the top of the home page, and every post has an edit-this-post link.

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Steve Ivy

Template changes will happen in the source repo, I don’t mind doing “dev work” for those

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Steve Ivy

@evanpro Lol right? I really want something minimal that meets my needs with little extra

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Steve Ivy

So I want to edit in the browser, basically. But one trick I want:

Posts are going to be Jekyll-compatible markdown, but indexed in a db for live rendering and searching, generating archive pages etc without having to read 2700+ posts every time the page loads.

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Steve Ivy

Is it the best way or fastest way? No idea, but ima try it

I don’t know if I’m going to try to sync back to git, but if I do it will be built in and automatic.

~ # 18:16 ~

Steve Ivy

@monkchips Behold my empty git repo!!

https://t.co/aP8WPNdzJw

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Steve Ivy

@monkchips Every repo is perfect until you ruin it with code

~ # 18:21 ~

Steve Ivy

@evanpro Not sure if kidding, but this year any extra features are likely to follow post-once-then-syndicate principles

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Steve Ivy

RT @johnsundell: Today is a day I’ve been looking forward to for a long time 🙂

Introducing Publish — a static site generator for Swift dev…

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Steve Ivy

RT @tinysubversions: I’ve been building a Facebook Events style system for decentralized social media based on the simple, open source, pri…

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Steve Ivy

that’s a blog gdmt https://t.co/vKKD5kGlBP

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Steve Ivy

@evanpro Stretch goal is to have this duct-taped toy blog running in the next 10 hours

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Steve Ivy