Show HN: Static Microblog Generator in Perl and Python

github.com

13 pointsjjjbokma2 comments

This is interesting. Wondering if you plan to support (or do support) the archive feature like the bottom of Anarchaia does by year?

Also, curious what inspired you to create this? (I haven't a lot of knowledge of the space or existing tools for micro blogging.)

Thanks!

The blog has an archive feature like Anarchia. In fact I was heavily inspired by Anarchia when I wrote tumblelog. However, instead of grouping by month I group by (ISO) week number to keep the pages small (I blog daily). But I do plan to add a calendar feature to make it easier to go to a specific date. See also my tumblelog [0].

I already had written a program to generate my other (main) blog [1] so based on my experience I had a list of things I wanted and how I wanted them so I decided to write a static blog generator myself. Moreover, I wanted something to show on GitHub as I am looking to be hired as a Perl developer and have hardly any code publicly available (for most of the work I do I have to sign an NDA).

Thanks for asking.

[0] http://plurrrr.com/

[1] http://johnbokma.com/blog/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com