IT LIVES!

Over the past few months I've been playing around with some ideas for a new static site generator script. In part because the previous script was just a horrifying pile of horrors (ok, more coffee required for metaphors)---and in part due to something that happened to Warren Ellis.

I've been a fan of his work for some time, and had a mild feeling of loss and sadness the day he announced he would no longer be blogging on morning.computer. Thankfully I knew he has a scattered online presence, so there was a chance that he had another blog somewhere out there. Turns out, he does. Except it suddenly seemed like he might put this one out to pasture as well following some tech issues that are very much the product of the modern world, "fixing" old technology that wasn't broken in the first place.

It made me realize that perhaps the only way to truly own my own content and be able to just keep going, is to make my own tools. Which I did by duct taping bash onto a Python 2 script. Which may not have been the best idea - though I just don't have the time to get into Python 3 right now.

You can find a copy of the script right here. Please keep in mind that it is by no means a good script. It is a complete mess, made by an amateur. So use/examine at your own risk.

I have already made a list of features I would like to add to the script in future:

• It should rely entirely on dmenu for all menus.
• It should have a "initialize" option that will automatically create all directories and files required for generating a bare bone site.
• It should use a configuration file rather than the hard-coded values in the script itself for the theme name etc.
• It should auto-upload the changed site to klab.

But that is all for another day. For now I am just happy to have a functional script that allows me to focus on the myriad of other ideas and side-projects I do not have time for. Until the next time I find an hour to type up a rambling missive, have a nice day.