Blog with git

2021-09-30

{:tags [:git :blog] :draft true}

Blogging with git

• Posts are markdown files in a git repository
• Each post has metadata that is expressed as one edn map at the begining of each post file
• A web application exposes the posts as html from a local git repository
• Posts are read to a datomic database each time the git repo is updated
• Posts publishing date is given in it's metadata.
• Posts without publishing date are considered drafts.
• RSS feed that lists published posts in the publishing date order
• Posts can be edited after publishing but this does not affect their publish date
• Authoring can be done in the github web user interface
• A command in the web application to pull from github
• A version history view with diffing functionality
• Implemented by parsing the log and diff output from git
• Each post has an id generated by (format "%x" (- (System/currentTimeMillis) 1446790411973))
• This is used in RSS guid -field and post urls
• The web application shows a new id when it's called with the url "/new-post-id".This id can then be copied to a new post file.

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