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22 points by cinemast
22 points by cinemast
Maybe (?) not for me but I like it. Simple - yes. Just works - yes. Does one thing - yes. Small, sensible output - yes. Generates RSS - YES :) The web would be a better place if it was more like this ;)
Please underline the links, or other indicator, I had absolutely no idea they were links, looked like code formatting was mixed up.
Pretty neat! I use Hugo and I so feel you on the complexity tokens side of things, might switch to a simple script akin yours at some point.
How do you generate the dithered images? Is that done as part of the rendering process, or do you dither them beforehand?
It looks like the code dithers the images at this line: https://github.com/nobloat/blog/blob/936e86ddeed7d122ce11cedd3959080b84df578f/image.go#L56
Yes, I got the idea from the low tech magazine (solar version), which I have been following for years.
It is done upfront once, but the code for it is also in the repository.
Just a very naive implementation of floyd-steinberg-algorithm on top of gray scale and edge sharpening.
Mine's extremely similar. 487 lines of code (across two files), some extra for syntax highlighting the code blocks.
Very nice. Some similarities to my custom go static site generator. Though not as clean + minimalist (nor as cool).
I have metadata files for each post, and my templates are a bit on the whacky side. (Also note I have to do a git push at some point my local copy is way ahead of what's on GH).
Cool, yes opengraph metadata is something I do not have yet. Couldn’t find a way to avoid frontmatter parsing. Maybe just adding another h2 with reserved names for og-* tags?
Sidenote: Despite it's name this blog doesn't seem to be hosted on an Apple ][.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Apple_II_Plus.jpg/960px-Apple_II_Plus.jpg
To be honest, being born in the 90s my passion for retro computing started far too late in my career, at which point I had already used the „logo“. Idea was to indicate something „slim“. Only a few years later I learned this was used for the Apple ][. Now it is a happy coincidence I like.
I was using Carlos Fellanosa's bashblog for a former version of my site if anyone is looking for a readymade script with robust options; https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
As an aside, I'm wondering what software developers on here would think about hiring someone to do their documentation or even ghost write a dev blog? For a while there, I was considering marketing myself as such because I enjoy technical/document writing, figuring things out, and bridging the gap between, say, engineer and consumer. I cast it off as a silly idea because I wanted to target small startups or single-man devs but quickly realized they probably cannot afford to pay someone to do that kind of work, or maybe they can, but the expense does not balance with the time saved. It's been in the back of my mind, though, since I am in need of a slower paced side gig that brings in some disposable income. Would love to hear the thoughts of actual software devs or people who have hired writers in the past.
that sounds very interesting to me. not for this blog, but for my commercial project. please reach out if you can relate to what we do.
My philosophy was very similar, at least until I tried to render math.
