https://ostwilkens.se/blog/setting-up-blog
Carl Ost Wilkens' Blog
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Minimum viable blog
My requirements
* Should use a domain I already own
* Should follow modern web standards and have decent SEO
* It should be very easy to add new content
* All pages should be statically built
This is what I did:
* Write a small template.html
* pip install markdown2
* Tired, so ask O1 for a render.py script
* Write some posts
Just render, host it, and THAT'S IT!
Jekyll? Ghost? Wordpress? All the same, into the bin!
Carl Ost Wilkens' Blog
Carl Ost Wilkens' Blog
{{ content }}
import os
import markdown2
def main():
# Define the directory containing the Markdown files
posts_dir = './posts'
output_dir = './blog'
# Read template.html
with open("template.html", 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
template = file.read()
# Create output directory if it doesn't exist
os.makedirs(output_dir, exist_ok=True)
# Iterate over all dirs in the posts directory
for post_directory in os.listdir(posts_dir):
post_code = post_directory
# Construct full file path
file_path = os.path.join(posts_dir, post_directory, 'eng.md')
# Read the Markdown file
with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
md_content = file.read()
# Find first line which contains "# "
title = md_content.split("# ", 1).pop(1).split("\n").pop(0)
# Convert Markdown to HTML
html_content = markdown2.markdown(md_content, extras=['fenced-code-blocks', "header-ids"])
html_content = html_content.replace('
{title}'
index_html = template.replace('{{ content }}', index_html)
index_html = index_html.replace('Minimum viable blog', "Index")
index_path = "index.html"
with open(index_path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
file.write(index_html)
print(f"Rendered index.html")
main()
Written manually at canonical earth-date 2025-03-31
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