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I come from a background where swearing, loudly, is considered ok. Think Samuel L. Jackson in "pulp fiction" except my language has, I reckon, a metric ton more swearwords.

First time I worked in a team of people of different language I ended up involuntarily teaching them a lot of them because I was swearing a lot while coding.

But honestly, I don't understand the choice to use vulgar words in naming your project.

EDIT: but +1 for using WikiCreole!

I suspect it is the same reason why the authors blog is called "Teh Oarsum".

Well, it got killed off the front page by the mods at some point, probably for that exact reason. You can sleep easier tonight.

Why didn't you go for hyde? I think it's the best solution now as far as python is concerned.

Worth watching is lighting [1]. Its main feature is the incremental building which looks really promising.

[1] https://github.com/borismus/lightning

Because they're too complicated! If I want to get started with them, or extend them, there's a large learning curve.

For example, take a look at https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde/blob/master/hydeengine/f... or https://github.com/borismus/lightning/blob/master/lightning

What does all of that stuff do? Why does lightning need YAML and pickle? Why does hyde need to mirror the entirety of python's os module, including os.walk, for both Files and Folders?

Now compare that to my version: https://bitbucket.org/anthonyb/shithead/src/8a8e5787cf6a/blo... , which is essentially the entire engine, file system handling and building code.

A few bash scripts does it for me (the Web site is not a blog).

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/publish-a-web-site-with-bash-s...

I become very angry, when I don't find a RSS feed for a blog I like.

I agree. The lack of RSS is inexcusable. RSS feeds can easily be implemented without the using know they're there.

"inexcusable"? Your sense of entitlement is underwhelming.

Sorry, but I would never use this, nor recommend it to anybody.

You make it sound like you left out features, because you wanted to keep it simple, but that really just comes off as you being lazy.

RSS could be implemented, without the user of your application knowing it's there.

Besides, on http://teh.oarsum.com/, the links don't work. They're going to /posts\article-name.html, not /posts/article-name.html as they should.

Another thing is you're talking about simplicity, yet you include Bootstrapper.

I realize that Bootstrapper is probably not included by default and is something you added in the template, but it just emphasizes the fact that you have mixed goals.

Besides, you don't really use anything from Bootstrapper other than the spans. On top of that, you haven't bothered to edit the LESS files to fit your needs, instead you just overwrite that with another CSS. That is not simplicity, that is just laziness.

And last, but definitely not least... Quirks Mode. Just no.

Thanks for the bug report on the paths. I was relying on os.path to generate the urls, which obviously doesn't work on Windows or Mac.

The rest of your issues seem to be with the template - you're free to develop your own if you don't like mine, or don't like bootstrap, or whatever.

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