Blog TODO

Published on 2000-01-01 by @danja

far in the future

I feel very stupid.

I've written several blog engines in various languages. Never once started from scratch on design. What I mean is that I've always taken as my requirements the bits I liked about other blog engines, prioritised a bit, followed that to-do list. Never started with an absolutely minimal reverse-chrono

I rather like this mode of blogging, type markdown into VSCode, makesite.py converts/formats it, use git (in a script) to transfer to server.

First, add a bit to p (publish) to ssh into server, then :

cd /home/hkms-apps/hyperdata-static
git pull

Soonish :

• layout : make it prettier & more navigable, maybe make it 2 or 3 column for index etc.
• add a forward-chrono view from a given post, makes more sense with the things like continuing notes (can always make it more sophisticated via SPARQL store)
• add support for multiple topic-specific blogs
• add a directory treewalker to send the content etc. up to my SPARQL store (I've a feeling I've done this before in Python, very straightforward - it's be quicker to do afresh, with the help of sparqlwrapper and ChatGPT)

I reckon I'll split makesite.py up, modularise a bit. Even if I move to all SPARQL-backed for the blog, it's bound to be useful somewhere.

Things for later :

Turtle plugin for markdown

similar to https://github.com/ozekik/markdown-ld

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ozekik/markdown-ld/master/examples/foaf.md

Requirements :

1. independent of, but compatible with existing markdown tools
2. extensible, reasonably modular
3. block identifier & delimiters
4. useful defaults, easily overriden

For most of 1 & 2, make it easy to put in pipeline, something like :

markdown, other = mx(markdown_with_extensions)

for 3, maybe :

mx:turtle '''

<this> a x:That.

For 4, for starters I'd probably be good to had some standard prefixes as default, added by the processor, which could be overriden :

mx:turtle mx:prefixes '''

prefix ...

<this> a x:That.

'''

>>> pair = (1, 2)
>>> pair
(1, 2)
>>> x, y = pair
>>> x
1
>>> y
2

>>> pair[0]
1
>>> pair[

Markdown Extension Vocab, mx: