The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators
Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo.
But for your target audience, it might be confusing to compare your service to those.
I wanted to look into the developer guide to customizing a template. It's to add RTL support for Arabic content.
This give me error tho https://blot.im/developers
The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating.
1: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/39d9583395c190534...
Thankfully, only the first name of the recipients is listed.
I had no idea!
Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It turns a folder into a website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32041158 - July 2022 (9 comments)
Blot – a blogging platform with no interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17314858 - June 2018 (120 comments)
Blot – blogging from a Dropbox folder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078031 - Aug 2015 (17 comments)
Show HN: Blot, a static blog powered by Dropbox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183498 - Aug 2014 (36 comments)
I still like the url approach - being able to browse until you have the view you need, and then just copy the URL and change format in order to find the right API call can be very nice. The challenge, of course, is that you need to be very cautious about which urls you guarantee will be stable, or you'll be locked into a site structure you might regret.
Why? XSL is awesome even if a little arcane now.
Time makes fools of us all.
I’m not versed in web development, but Blot’s developer (David) seems to have a great goal in mind & similar enough priorities to what I wanted that it was a great fit. I finally got to set up the photography site I’d been planning, too.
It’s http://ristrettoshots.com/ if anyone was curious what one take on a Blot photo site would look like.
EDIt: this is a good thing.
2024 is the year of PHP.
If there's anything to learn about humanity it's that we apply this technique in many ways.
What if I drop in a tf file?
2. Folks clamor that we actually had things right the first time
3. Hype dies down
4. Blog posts complain that the solution "just doesn't scale" and that the complete opposite approach (or some hybrid) is better
5. GOTO 1
1. Old solution becomes new again
Points 2 and 3
4. Dijkstra enters the picture with the paper: Go To Statement Considered Harmful [1]
5. Wait, did this ever happen? :’)
I wonder if there’s a modern language practice that extensively uses GOTO
[1] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...
I don't know why people don't like it -- it's essentially an unconditional jump (can replace all while(true);, for example).
-H baseHREF
Turn on HTML output, including HTTP references. Useful for ftp sites.
baseHREF gives the base ftp location when using HTML
output. That is, the local directory may be `/local/ftp/pub', but
it must be referenced as `ftp://hostname.organization.domain/pub'
(baseHREF should be `ftp://hostname.organization.domain').
Hint: don't use ANSI lines with this option, and don't give more
than one directory in the directory list. If you wish to use
colors via CSS style-sheet, use the -C option in addition to this
option to force color output.
-T title
Sets the title and H1 header string in HTML output mode.
I use them and I'm a big fan.
I had it strung up with RSS to Mailchimp to auto-send new posts to a mailing list. Recently just switched to Ghost to make that more integrated, we'll see how it goes!
What part is confusing to you? I'm happy to help.
The public folder feature was really nice.
This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sharing (you can hand someone the entire volume rather than just a link to it, and they get the whole contents, all offline).
It really sounds like it could be the hot new thing, if only some forward-thinking VC would invest in it.
Thanks for building this.
Also, my website is https://independentlypoor.com/
I am, unfortunately.
> Email us and we'll get you up and running
Will do. Thank you very much!
There's a bunch of zrok stuff in the pipeline that's way more important to get to first... but maybe down the line we can support some kind of extension mechanism in zrok and static site generators could just sort of snap right in...
Stuff to think about anyway.
So you cannot link to "posts"? Only to files whose names starts with underscore?
