This is the code to my personal blog and homepage.
The heart of my blogging platform lives in a GNU Make Makefile, which specifies the entire build process. Each blog post starts with YAML frontmatter (which contains metadata like the post's title) followed by the body content in Textile markup.
- blog posts are preprocessed with yaml2json
- they are then bundled with gather and groupby
- some defaults are filled in with jq and refract
- the jade templates for posts and pages are rendered with render
- CoffeeScript and Stylus stylesheets are compiled
- files are moved around with put and then synced to Amazon S3 with the AWS Command Line Interface
Everything is generated by running make. I use serve to check if everything looks alright on localhost, and then upload to S3 with make upload.
A full rebuild of the entire site takes roughly 30 seconds on my 2011 MacBook Pro, but render is smart enough to only rerender when needed, so adding a single post takes just 3 to 4 seconds.
I mostly edit my blog posts in Mou and the templates in Sublime Text, but everything else happens on the command line.