blogtini

Slides / presentation

https://traceypooh.github.io/slides/dweb-2022 (tracey talk at https://dwebcamp.org)

Site live at:

• https://blogtini.com
• https://traceypooh.github.io/blogtini/

Hooks

• Whenever you create or delete a post, we want your sitemap updated.
• Whenever someone comments on your site, we run a small script.

Thus, we suggest you use our "pre commit" and "post merge" git 'hooks' to automate the above "housekeeping". You can set them up like this:

git config --local core.hooksPath bin/

RSS

If you'd like a RSS index.xml file generated with the bin/sitemap script, during each "pre commit" hook (above), you'll need to have the yq script installed on your machine.

Best two website/blog setup options

Blog source repository that uses markdown inside html markup files

• /.nojekyll
• /2022/01/i-baked-a-pie/
• /2022/01/i-baked-a-pie/index.html
  • start with front matter
    • including comment: <script src="../theme.js" type="module" charset="utf-8"></script>
  • you can then have the nice url https://example.com/2022/01/i-baked-a-pie/ where the included JS transforms the markdown to markup
• your /sitemap.xml can reference each of your directory urls
• manage your /sitemap.xml manually or run the /bin/sitemap script any time your create or delete a post. The /bin/sitemap script can be found on the blogtini website.
• have /theme.js do an import of whatever theme you desire

Blog source repository that uses markdown files

• /2022/01/i-baked-a-pie.md
  • jekyll will automatically transform your markdown to markup and to an url like https://example.com/2022/01/i-baked-a-pie.html
  • tracey is working with jekyll to get https://example.com/2022/01/i-baked-a-pie.md urls to also get copied in verbatim from your source -- so the original markdown with front matter can be used and parsed

Local development

Option 1

safari is nice, you can run the site locally by just

• Developer Tools enabled
• Develop menu
  • check Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions during development
  • reload html page
  • uncheck Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions when done
• example: file:///Users/tracey/dev/blogtini/index.html

Option 2

(any basic static file webserver will do):

( sleep 3; open http://localhost:8000 ) &
python3 -m http.server

You can force a re-parse of posts & pages by adding optional CGI arg ?recache=1

Example urls using GitHub or GitLab pages

If you use https://github.com or https://gitlab.com free 'Pages' integration, you will get urls you can like this:

• https://traceypooh.github.io/blogtini/
• https://traceypooh.gitlab.io/blogtini/

You can choose to use your own domain name (typically ~$20 USD/year) for a shorter/nicer url that points to the Pages deployment above (this is what https://blogtini.com does)

To Do / Fixmes

• git grep xxxxx highest priorities
• git grep xxx