Posts tagged “bashpress”

Bashpress 2008/09/03

Guilty. I wrote another blogging engine. This one's command-line based and only for those willing to get HTML on their shirt. Writing a post looks like this:

  1. bin/new "This is the post's title"
  2. Write the post in the file it gives you
  3. bin/preview path/to/the/post
  4. Check it out in your favorite browser
  5. bin/publish path/to/the/post

I rolled my own because I rather like the command line and rather dislike being h4x0red. It has a script to import a Wordpress blog, so you can come and play, too. The source is on GitHub.

Go ahead and make fun of me for spending my free time on this. I hope it'll make me write more (I hated Wordpress' WYSIWYG editor, even in HTML mode).

http://github.com/rcrowley/bashpress

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It’sablog 2008/08/17

I really did make a mistake a few weeks ago, losing my old Wordpress blog, the theme, and all of the non-Wordpress extras I had in that directory tree. More fuel for the argument that upgrading Wordpress is too hard. I thought I was smart enough to do it. I was wrong. So I took that as motivation to build the command-line blog I’ve always wanted. Then I went on vacation. As you can see, it's finished now. More soon on the code.

I kept a text file open during my flights to and from Kentucky. On the plane I was reading The World Is Flat and it surprisingly tempered very few of the thoughts I liked enough to write down. (Afterthoughts in bold.)

The things that suck about being an adult are the same ones that suck about being a kid: dishes, laundry and paying for things. The rest is just details.

My del.icio.us network is better for me than Digg/Reddit/whatever because I trust the sources. I don’t like everyone being little CmdrTacos. I’m the Commander and I pick my Generals carefully. (After reading Del.icio.us vs. Friendfeed.)

Neverminding your opinion of Chris Matthews and his Hardball show, it’s depressing that the airport cuts away from the last 20 minutes in favor of an Olympic human-interest segment on using chopsticks in Beijing.

I also spent some time thinking about my upcoming move. Moving within the city and with over a year’s experience living here have significantly changed my criteria. Most importantly, Katherine will be moving out, too. Beyond the need for a bigger apartment, here are some of my current considerations:

Lesser concerns that didn't make the cut:

Anything I’m missing?

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