blog.sh

blog.sh is a minimal blog engine in a small shell script. Features:

• Requires only a posix shell, a markdown processor and git
• Handle both blog posts and normal pages
• No boilerplate, just create a markdown file
• Show creation and update timestamps (taken from git history)

See the blog post for more details. There's also another post about the Gemini support.

Quickstart

• Clone this repository `git clone https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin.git
• It currently uses two external programs to generate the output formats
  • HTML: smu, but you can replace it with any other markdown->HTML converter
  • Gemtext: md2gemini, which you can comment out if you don't want to generate Gemini pages
• Put your blog posts as markdown files into posts
• Run ./blog.sh and your posts will show up in build/index-with-drafts.html
• Commit posts in git to add timestamps and have them show up in build/index.html
• Copy the content of build to your webserver, so that other people can read your blog

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

See also

If you like the this, you might also be interested in using make to generate static (non-blog) sites.

karl.berlin

The repo also contains the content for my personal blog and homepage (http://www.karl.berlin). If this is a problem for anyone who wants to use blog.sh, please let me know and I will split the repos. For now, this is more convenient for me.