Bear's Log

I've always wanted to get the tools I use to work with my personal site cleaned up enough to make them useful to others who may also want to run a Python based static site ... and I think I have reached that point tonight!

I just got done with a large refactoring and code simplification to enable delete and undelete of posts and during that work I was able to remove a lot of code that just wasn't required. After that process I realized that the two tools I was using had a lot of similar code so I started the process to merge them. That also reduced the code size and smell quite a bit.

Now the tool I used to use to generate the site, Hakkan, is now deprecated by the tool that I use to handle the dynamic events - Kaku.

Kaku now supports Micropub, Webmention and Token endpoints and generates events that are sent via Redis Pub/Sub to the event handler, which does the work of making sure the metadata files are created and/or updated and then generates the static files as needed.

Most of the configurable items are defined in the config files but the remaining items that are tighly bound to my site is the use of Markdown for the post's and the URL path style for articles.

Other items that remain are to get more than the basic handling of Micropub notes and to handle the fancier Webmentions like u-like-of.

maybe next weekend :)