blom3, the Blog Manager

blom3 is the content manager for my blog. It is a successor to blom.sh.

Commands

• blom-article
• blom-update
• blom-swit

Dependencies

• a standard *nix environment
  • m4 is not quite an everyday tool, but is part of POSIX.
  • Scripts are tested on both bash and dash.
  • The nonstandard --mime-type option of the file command is needed.
• sqlite3: both the command line tool and the library
• zig 0.13.0
• mxml
• gzip
• discount
• zig-getopt - this is included in the blom source code

blom does not actually handle serving the files over HTTP: a seperate server such as nginx is needed. For local development purposes, you can use a simple HTTP server such as the one included in Python:

python -m http.server --directory .

blom implicitly uses Isso as a comments system. This is a runtime dependency for a production site, not a dependency in the generator

License

blom3 is provided under the GNU Affero General Public License: the full text is here.

blom3 - the blog manager
Copyright (C) 2023 Ratan Abraham Varghese

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