On Blogging: A Response to Svbtle and Obtvse

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I'm running static generation on one of my sites, RSS included. Turned out to be very simple. Code is in Python, and right now I'm not sharing it because it's an unholy mess... but it does work.

Seriously, though, it's such a simple system, anyone who can program at all ought to be able to do it.

I totally agree. There is a not so little comedy factor in this discussion.

I for one use some static generator too which is self baked and extensible with filters and plugins.

I'd love to see your static generator — is it online anywhere?

https://github.com/entropie/backbite This was my first attempt. My webserver did not support ruby at this time but i really wanted a blog engine in my favourite language (running tumblog at http://polis.ackro.org/ , and the blog http://blog.ackro.org/ ). Its far to complex, but worked fine.

My second attempt ist much more simple. https://github.com/entropie/backbitr I just made a blog for my girlfriends webpage after month i did not do anything with it (iam not much of a blogger, tbh). It took me like 30 mins to get it up and running. http://dogitright.de/~mit/blog/archive/2011.html Its not completely finished, but it needs to be soon, cause of my GFs blog.

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