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Show HN: bashblog, a single Bash script to create blogs

19 points by carlesfe 12y ago

kseistrup 12y ago
Sounds like a revival of the old nanoblogger ⌘ http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/
- carlesfe 12y ago
  You are right, the ideas are very similar, though the approach is quite different. Actually, I tried nanoblogger before writing bashblog, and I found its design a bit old-fashioned and too configurable for my needs. It just looks like a Movable Type clone. Ah, and it also used templates, which I didn't want. bashblog's main feature is that you just need to download a single file, run "./bb.sh post" and write your blogpost. That is it. Ah, it also supports markdown.
vezzy-fnord 12y ago
See also the (in)famous werc web anti-framework written in Plan 9 rc shell: http://werc.cat-v.org/ http://werc.cat-v.org/
- carlesfe 12y ago
  werc is great, I have used it for websites and works wonderfully. bashblog is focused on blogs, and doesn't use templates (though they can be hacked in easily, I do so on my personal page)
arpstick 12y ago
> Everything stored in a single 700-line bash script, how cool is that?! ;) A good rule of thumb: If your bash script is over 100 (sane) lines it's an indication that what you are doing is probably best not done with shell scripts. But... to each their own.
- carlesfe 12y ago
  I agree in that a shell script is not the best platform for a blogging engine. However, 1. It has literally zero dependencies (other from bash, of course) which is kind of the goal of bashblog 2. If you examine the code you will notice it's clean. The engine is about 200 lines, the rest are HTML and CSS templates. 3. I don't agree that a shell script should be less than 100 lines, more or less. A single function? Of course. But a whole module? I disagree. As long as the code is clean, understandable and consistent, I don't see why not! What I'm trying to say is that the mantra of "shell scripts should be used only to copy files and run make" isn't correct. Shell programming is a thing, and I believe bashblog is a good example of that.

19 points by carlesfe 12y ago

kseistrup 12y ago

Sounds like a revival of the old nanoblogger ⌘ http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/

carlesfe 12y ago
You are right, the ideas are very similar, though the approach is quite different. Actually, I tried nanoblogger before writing bashblog, and I found its design a bit old-fashioned and too configurable for my needs. It just looks like a Movable Type clone. Ah, and it also used templates, which I didn't want. bashblog's main feature is that you just need to download a single file, run "./bb.sh post" and write your blogpost. That is it. Ah, it also supports markdown.

vezzy-fnord 12y ago

See also the (in)famous werc web anti-framework written in Plan 9 rc shell: http://werc.cat-v.org/ http://werc.cat-v.org/

carlesfe 12y ago
werc is great, I have used it for websites and works wonderfully. bashblog is focused on blogs, and doesn't use templates (though they can be hacked in easily, I do so on my personal page)

arpstick 12y ago

> Everything stored in a single 700-line bash script, how cool is that?! ;) A good rule of thumb: If your bash script is over 100 (sane) lines it's an indication that what you are doing is probably best not done with shell scripts. But... to each their own.

carlesfe 12y ago
I agree in that a shell script is not the best platform for a blogging engine. However, 1. It has literally zero dependencies (other from bash, of course) which is kind of the goal of bashblog 2. If you examine the code you will notice it's clean. The engine is about 200 lines, the rest are HTML and CSS templates. 3. I don't agree that a shell script should be less than 100 lines, more or less. A single function? Of course. But a whole module? I disagree. As long as the code is clean, understandable and consistent, I don't see why not! What I'm trying to say is that the mantra of "shell scripts should be used only to copy files and run make" isn't correct. Shell programming is a thing, and I believe bashblog is a good example of that.