Hacker News Reader

I know this probably isn't meant for me since I don't seem to know what I'm doing. But how do you run this? An answer in a bit more detail than your github link would be useful. I have it on my server in a public folder and now I don't know what to do.

Open a shell on your public server, run ./bb.sh post, and that's it. You can now access your blog from your public URL.

Is the motivation something like "we can't install some kind of PHP and a database for you"?

Not actually, the motivation is "my server is quite slow so I don't want to run dynamic content on it" :)

1. Thanks!

2. I referenced this in a sub-comment: what are the options of parsing Markdown using a bash-only blogging utility?

It is theoretically easy, one would only have to add a parse_markdown() function which converts MD to HTML, there are many parsers out there.

For me, after many years of making web pages, HTML is easier than Markdown.