Blom, the Content Manager

This project has been end-of-lifed. The successor project is blom3 (mirrored on GitHub here)

blom is the content manager for my blog. Other blogs should probably avoid using it.

This version has most of the features of the old implementation, except for

• JSON Feed pagination
• Reading from content.html: all content must be provided as content.md (note that HTML can be trivially embedded in Markdown)
• Golang HTML templates: these have been replaced with m4 based templates which are included in the repository.

Additionally, several features have been added:

• Automatic GZIP compression
• Including the article modification date in the article's page
• Including links to the plain content.md and content.html in the article's page
• Independence from the current working directory
• Apply CSS classes to an entire article
• A _COMMENT_SECTION below the article text

Dependencies

• a standard *nix environment
  • m4 is not quite an everyday tool, but is part of POSIX
• bash
• zig 0.9.0
• mxml
• mon13
• gzip
• jq
• markdown

The generated website has further dependencies. Notably blom does not actually handle serving the files over HTTP: a seperate server such as nginx is needed. For local development purposes, you can use a simple HTTP server such as the one included in Python:

python -m http.server --directory .

License

blom.sh content management system
Copyright (C) 2023 Ratan Abraham Varghese

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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