Daily Digest for Tuesday, Dec 31, 2019
☀️ Earliest posts come first.
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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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.
~ # 18:04 ~
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.
~ # 18:07 ~
Template changes will happen in the source repo, I don’t mind doing “dev work” for those
~ # 18:10 ~
@evanpro Lol right? I really want something minimal that meets my needs with little extra
~ # 18:11 ~
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.
~ # 18:15 ~
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 ~
@monkchips Every repo is perfect until you ruin it with code
~ # 18:21 ~
@evanpro Not sure if kidding, but this year any extra features are likely to follow post-once-then-syndicate principles
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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…
~ # 18:58 ~
RT @tinysubversions: I’ve been building a Facebook Events style system for decentralized social media based on the simple, open source, pri…
~ # 19:46 ~
that’s a blog gdmt https://t.co/vKKD5kGlBP
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@evanpro Stretch goal is to have this duct-taped toy blog running in the next 10 hours
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markdown https://t.co/j8Rh1I5ROK
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