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Real Blogging for Hackers Written in C

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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.

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)

You could ask Marco Arment for a copy of 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.

Marco Armeni has a podcast!

Hyde does that, well the run in the background and recompile as you make changes part.

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.

I would suggest using watchr to automate jekyll. Should be pretty trivial to get what you want. It's not compiled, but I don't see why that is a requirement.

https://github.com/mynyml/watchr

There's also a decent python application that does what you need called "blogofile".

Jekyll fits most of your requirements. You may want to look into GitHub Pages as well. http://pages.github.com/

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

I do find it weird in English that a noun with -ing ending may possibly remain a noun. In this case blogging.

"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.

"blog" is both a noun and a verb. In this case, the verb was used as a gerund (noun).

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

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

Of course! I wrote my own blogging engine in C (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.

Jekyll (Ruby) is better.

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.

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