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For sqlite. To support multiple blogs I'd probably vary the database file used rather than complicating it with a site table.
CREATE TABLE blog (
id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
epoch INTEGER NOT NULL,
filename TEXT NOT NULL,
subject TEXT NOT NULL,
body TEXT NOT NULL
);
CREATE INDEX blogepoch ON blog (epoch);
A CLI tool to make new, list existing, or to edit entries. At the heart is a text editor working on a temporary file; the format looks something like an email message,
Epoch 1670907653
Filename yet-another-blog-engine-rewrite
Subject Yet Another Blog Engine Rewrite
# Yet Another Blog Engine Rewrite
...
Known header values get put into the corresponding blog table columns, and remaining text after the header is placed into the body column.
$ blog-about yet-another-blog-engine-rewrite
$ blog-about -l
$ blog-about -e 30
This script converts the database contents into a static site. At present it rebuilds all postings, but that could be made more efficient. A complication is the previous and next links which requires knowing the adjacent posting (or postings) by epoch.
Then, rsync stuffs the files up onto some virt.