I was using babille[1], a python script that build a static site from markdown files. Babille is batteries included : blog, RSS, pages, sitemap, templates...
But, but, but, I don't want to write with the markdown text format anymore and I don't want to maintain a python script. Moreover, I want a Gemini capsule :P
https://git.sr.ht/~fredg/babille[1
I want to write my (b)log posts in the most easy and quick way. GemText[2] is some kind of very (very) light markdown. I choose that one over orgmode for its simplicity and because converting orgmode to gemtext was not as effective as I want. So, you just write and you don't bother with the formatting things because, there are none, or almost none :D.
I had to convert my old blog posts to fit on the gemini server. But there was more than the format, headers had to be converted too. I wrote this little script to do the job:
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| #!/bin/sh
| #
| # togmi.sh
| #
| # Bulk convert title.md files with header like below:
| # Title: your_title
| # Date: xxxx-xx-xx
| # Category: your_tag
| #
| # TO gemini gmi files date-title.gmi (required for the gemlog index)
| # with header below:
| # # your_title
| # reformated date in the 2nd line
| # No more category
| # Cleanup empty lines
| #
| # copy (do backup!!) your md files to the mdposts directory
| # You need lowdown to convert your markdown files to gemtext ones
| # run the script.
| #
| # LICENCE: WTFPL
|
| set -eu
|
| # .gmi files dir
| LOGDIR=log
| mkdir -p "${LOGDIR}"
|
| # move to md files dir
| MDFDIR=mdposts
| cd "${MDFDIR}"
|
| for f in *.md
| do
| D=$(grep Date ${f} | awk '{ print $2 }')
| sed -i -e 's/Title:/#/' -e "s/^Date.*$/${D}/" -e 's/^Category.*$//' "${f}"
| lowdown -Tgemini -o "${D}-${f%.md}.gmi" "${f}"
| done
|
| for g in *.gmi
| do
| sed -i '2d' "${g}"
| done
|
| mv *.gmi ../"${LOGDIR}"
| rm *.md
|
| cd -
| echo done!!!
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https://git.sr.ht/~fredg/capsule.galusik.fr/tree/master/item/togmi.sh
In the beginning I was planning to move to a shinobi website. It is a text-based, RSS focused blogging system. No more HTML, no more website in a classical way. But I thought that I couldn't force people to use a newsreader. This is why I have decided to convert my gemlog to html and to offer an atom feed based on the gemtext posts.
For the last one, I let you read prx's post, it's all that you need to build a beautiful atom feed that you can read from any web browser too.
https://si3t.ch/log/2022-06-15-how-to-atom-feed.xhtml
gemini://si3t.ch/log/2022-06-15-how-to-atom-feed.gmi
For that I was planning to make a quick and dirty script first but as usual, prx[5] has already thought about it :P.
https://si3t.ch/log/2022-09-29-gmi2xhtml-v6.xhtml
gemini://si3t.ch/log/2022-09-29-gmi2xhtml-v6.gmi
For the homepage, the contact page, the about one and for my writer page, I want to use orgmode and the powerfull publish emacs engine. For those fourth pages, I did the conversion to orgmode live through emacs.
At the end, the workflow is like this:
Be aware that this script does the job but it can surely be improved ;).
https://git.sr.ht/~fredg/capsule.galusik.fr/tree/master/item/capsule.sh