bumble

A very simple personal website and blog. (Work in progress!)

bumble can!

• Read Tumblr URLs and 301 Redirect
• Serve Markdown data from blog directory using jade templates
• Read JSON files with the same name as Markdown files for post metatada
• Serve any static files provided in views/static
• Provide an index of available blog posts at /blog based on contents of blog directory
• Provide date-based archives – Serve RSS – Serve a configurable number of posts on the home page and RSS
• Comes with simple, default styles, built on Foundation.
• Adds Gravatar based on Author email

Howto

Set your defaults in blogConfig.json

{
  "blogTitle": "Name of blog",
  "blogSubtitle": "Here's a tag line",
  "blogAuthor": "Blog Author",
  "blogAuthorEmail": "author@example.com",
  "blogBio": "One day, I decided to write a blog. This is the story of that blog.",
  "siteUrl": "http://example.com",
  "rssUrl": "http://example.com/feed/rss",
  "postDir": "blog",
  "blogHome": "/",
  "maxPosts": "10"
}

maxPosts will set the maximum number of posts available on the main page and RSS feed.

blogHome will accept routes like / or /blog or /somethingelse/. Just make sure whatever you use starts and ends with a slash. :)

Put a markdown file in the blog directory (or whichever you've chosen in postDir) in this format:

YYYY-MM-DD-this-is-the-name-of-the-post.md

URL slug will be set by the filename. Title will be taken from the first line, if it starts with a "#" or will fall back to "untitled" in the index.

0.1 under development

• Proper ordering of posts
• Pagination for home page
• Pagination for individual posts
• <3 post interaction
• Support for HTML posts
• Import from Tumblr
• Watch directory for changes and update data

Stuff under consideration

General stuff:

• Support for multiple authors
• Compile to static HTML or put in a database or something
• Alternate post types (quotes, photos/sets, videos, links)
• Rub git at blog server so you can git push publish

Admin:

• Persona authentication
• Multi-user
• Configuration
• "New post" form
• "Edit post" form
• "Draft" state posts

APIs

• Pull in other data for moderation +/-