Show HN: First Crack, a simple static blog engine in Python

https://bitbucket.org/zjszewczyk/firstcrack-public/src/master/

by zacssite • 7 years ago

44 12 7 years ago

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ColanR• 7 years ago

No example images or demo site?

indigodaddy• 7 years ago

Looks to be https://zacs.site

turtleish• 7 years ago

Because I started this project in 2011, though, with Python 2, you will need Python 2.* to use my blogging engine. I plan to port it to Python 3 soon. Use with versions other than 2.* at your own risk.

7 months until PY2 goes EOL...

quickthrower2• 7 years ago

My favourite static blog engine is a NIH fueled mix of NodeJS, Handlebars, fs-extra and some glue code. It takes about 10 minutes to knock one up and then you are blessed you can extend it using JS not whatever DSLs are thrown are you by the static site generator. There is a lot more help out there for JS problems than Hugo problems.

fredley2• 7 years ago

All you need to do to make this work with Python 3 is change your print statements (add parentheses) and change raw_input to input, as far as I can tell running it in python 3 locally. It seems to work perfectly with these ~20 seconds of changes.

e12e• 7 years ago

Sounds like 2to3 should be able to magically fix it? I suppose adding "from future import print" and similar for input would keep it working for python2 too?

Ed: i think that should be:

from builtins import input

from __future__ import print_function

fredley2• 7 years ago

Don't bother with python 2 compatibility, it's EOL in a few months. And 2to3 will probably work but even that is more effort than it needs to be.

cardamomo• 7 years ago

First Crack does not rely on any third-party tools, code, or frameworks.

That's music to my ears!

jjjbokma• 7 years ago

I wrote a static microblog engine in Python as well (3.7+). There is also a Perl version: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

Demo site: http://plurrrr.com/

AndrewStephens• 7 years ago

Everyone and their dog has written a static site generator - and that is good thing.

Blogs are a personal creation and there is something very satisfying about publishing your own text using your own tools.

Things I particularly like about this project:

* No dependencies

* the generated pages are clean

* good documentation and usability

Since it is tradition at this point, here is my static site generator: https://github.com/andrewstephens75/gensite

And an example page: https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.ht...

gitgud• 7 years ago

First Crack does not rely on any third-party tools, code, or frameworks

Sorry just a little nitpick: Python is a dependency that's not guaranteed to be on someone's system, probably should mention this somewhere

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