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XVI Edition, September 2025

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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…


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


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


@monkchips Behold my empty git repo!!

https://t.co/aP8WPNdzJw


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.


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.


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


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


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.


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


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.


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'…


RT @apgwoz: My brother in law has pointed out that at midnight... 🎼 “2020 24 hours to go #ramones #punksnotdead


@davewiner what are you using to write Scripting News these days? Missing a browser-based Manila/post-at-top-of-page self-hosted kind of thing.


RT @MastodonProject: use mastodon


@scalzi Who directed Event Horizon cause he’s your guy


RT @davewiner: The key to good blogging software is that it feels as easy to write a post as it is to write a tweet or a comment in a Faceb…


RT @sehnaoui: Smallest things in the universe: https://t.co/3jLLE1xg0w


RT @bmann: The Return. Of dangerousmeta. To blogging. And self-hosting.

“I don’t care what you use, or how you use it, but get the hell…


Me: 9:00pm, bedtime hot damn

My teenage son: 10:00pm, time for a long shower, with humming

Me: … 😡

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