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Real Blogging for Hackers Written in C

27 points by flocial 15y ago

GrooveStomp 15y ago
Small demographic? I'm not aware of any hackers written in C. :)
- pestaa 15y ago
  I do find it weird in English that a noun with -ing ending may possibly remain a noun. In this case blogging.
  - wnoise 15y ago
    "Blog" is a verb as well as a noun. In this case it is just the usual rule of "-ing" taking a verb into its present participle (adjective) or gerund (noun) denoting the action or process of the verb.
  - silentOpen 15y ago
    "blog" is both a noun and a verb. In this case, the verb was used as a gerund (noun).
- Figs 15y ago
  At first, I thought someone was making a novelty blog that would have all posts written in C. Somewhat disappointed that it isn't that, actually... :p
Kwpolska 15y ago
Jekyll (Ruby) is better.
- click170 15y ago
  I saw a post on here just the other day with a similar headline to this one. When I clicked on this one, I was honestly expecting it to be a repost of the previous article. The tool talked about in the previous post was based on Jekyll and actually caught my attention.
aj700 15y ago
I just want a windows or mac or linux binary, compiled, that runs in the background, and converts text files with markdown in them into full html pages, cms / blog index, archives etc. accoring to a template file, and sticks them in a subdirectory. I can then have them auto uploaded with dropbox. is there such a thing. I want a page generator, but not something that needs db or scripting modules attached to an http server.
- leif 15y ago
  I think jekyll or nanoc had a "run in background and watch this dir for changes" mode, you could sync its output dir with dropbox. EDIT: if they don't, you could always do it pretty easily with inotify and a bash script (inotify-tools on ubuntu I think)
- mapgrep 15y ago
  You could ask Marco Arment for a copy of http://www.marco.org/secondcrack http://www.marco.org/secondcrack It sounds like it does what you want, except for the part about being a binary, and he says he intends to open source it soon anyway.
  - swah 15y ago
    Marco Armeni has a podcast!
- steven_h 15y ago
  Hyde does that, well the run in the background and recompile as you make changes part.
- ajays 15y ago
  Me too. All I need is the following: a command that will take a marked-up file, and generate a beautiful HTML out of it. It will support multiple files, and automatically link to the next/previous/etc. (using the filename as the date/time stamp). And maybe provide a sidebar with the 10 most recent blogs (or something like that). It will support embedding of media (images, youtube, etc.). And finally: a decent spam-resistant commenting system. So every time I add a new entry (or modify one), I just run "make" and the rsync with my host. I'm using WP right now, but it's a pain in the ass. And I'm constantly worried about exploits.
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timruffles 15y ago
Because of course, 'real' hackers write everything in C ! The right tool for the... huh.
- spc476 15y ago
  Of course! I wrote my own blogging engine in C (http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html) but when I did it (very late 90s) there wasn't much competition (it was originally intended for an online journal, which is what weblogs were called back then). It works. No reason to scrap working code. It has features that most blogging engines still don't have (mine can accept posts via email, in addition to the web interface) and some that I've yet to see in any blogging engine (you can display all posts between two arbitrary dates, in chronological or reverse chronological order, via the URL). The only feature it really lacks is a commenting feature, and there, I'm not sure if that's really a bad thing or not.

27 points by flocial 15y ago

GrooveStomp 15y ago

Small demographic? I'm not aware of any hackers written in C. :)

pestaa 15y ago
I do find it weird in English that a noun with -ing ending may possibly remain a noun. In this case blogging.
- wnoise 15y ago
  "Blog" is a verb as well as a noun. In this case it is just the usual rule of "-ing" taking a verb into its present participle (adjective) or gerund (noun) denoting the action or process of the verb.
- silentOpen 15y ago
  "blog" is both a noun and a verb. In this case, the verb was used as a gerund (noun).
Figs 15y ago
At first, I thought someone was making a novelty blog that would have all posts written in C. Somewhat disappointed that it isn't that, actually... :p

Kwpolska 15y ago

Jekyll (Ruby) is better.

click170 15y ago
I saw a post on here just the other day with a similar headline to this one. When I clicked on this one, I was honestly expecting it to be a repost of the previous article. The tool talked about in the previous post was based on Jekyll and actually caught my attention.

aj700 15y ago

I just want a windows or mac or linux binary, compiled, that runs in the background, and converts text files with markdown in them into full html pages, cms / blog index, archives etc. accoring to a template file, and sticks them in a subdirectory. I can then have them auto uploaded with dropbox. is there such a thing. I want a page generator, but not something that needs db or scripting modules attached to an http server.

leif 15y ago
I think jekyll or nanoc had a "run in background and watch this dir for changes" mode, you could sync its output dir with dropbox. EDIT: if they don't, you could always do it pretty easily with inotify and a bash script (inotify-tools on ubuntu I think)
mapgrep 15y ago
You could ask Marco Arment for a copy of http://www.marco.org/secondcrack http://www.marco.org/secondcrack It sounds like it does what you want, except for the part about being a binary, and he says he intends to open source it soon anyway.
- swah 15y ago
  Marco Armeni has a podcast!
steven_h 15y ago
Hyde does that, well the run in the background and recompile as you make changes part.
ajays 15y ago
Me too. All I need is the following: a command that will take a marked-up file, and generate a beautiful HTML out of it. It will support multiple files, and automatically link to the next/previous/etc. (using the filename as the date/time stamp). And maybe provide a sidebar with the 10 most recent blogs (or something like that). It will support embedding of media (images, youtube, etc.). And finally: a decent spam-resistant commenting system. So every time I add a new entry (or modify one), I just run "make" and the rsync with my host. I'm using WP right now, but it's a pain in the ass. And I'm constantly worried about exploits.

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timruffles 15y ago

Because of course, 'real' hackers write everything in C ! The right tool for the... huh.

spc476 15y ago
Of course! I wrote my own blogging engine in C (http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html) but when I did it (very late 90s) there wasn't much competition (it was originally intended for an online journal, which is what weblogs were called back then). It works. No reason to scrap working code. It has features that most blogging engines still don't have (mine can accept posts via email, in addition to the web interface) and some that I've yet to see in any blogging engine (you can display all posts between two arbitrary dates, in chronological or reverse chronological order, via the URL). The only feature it really lacks is a commenting feature, and there, I'm not sure if that's really a bad thing or not.