Microblog

I’ve been writing to a Telegram channel for about a year and a half now. All this time, I wanted to put all the posts on the web.

The basic requirements were the following:

• each post is a Markdown file in the Git-repository,
• when you push to the repository, some CI will generate a static site and deploy it,
• the resulting site should be “embeddable” in any other site,
• some internationalization support,
• comments.

There are many alternatives like Hugo, 11ty, Ghost buster.

But I wanted both “simple” and “smart”; for example, the generator must understand that the file bfg_ru.md contains the post in Russian, or that I could list the tags of posts at the end of the file and not describe them in some special format at the beginning of the file. So, in short, I wrote a little program in Go that takes the posts from the repository and builds a static HTML site in a second.

It’s still pretty raw, but I’m already pretty happy with the result.