patricklee.nyc VS shite

From the readme:

> I accidentally restarted blogging after a long haitus. Before I could get words into the cloud, I muddled about with "modern" Static Site Generators. Because WordPress is so last century (or so I told myself). Then I got annoyed by the SSG Jamstack bespoke templating building etc. magic.

I felt the same way when I restarted my blog so I went a similar route, but... lazier. I'm using pandoc with some shell scripts gluing it all together and it works.. pretty well actually.

https://github.com/patleeman/patricklee.nyc

Pandoc can be your friend. My site maker [1] is built around it.

I think a hundred or so well-chosen lines of your favourite scripting language can do wonders. Mine is ~300 lines of Bash because I over-engineered a thing or two for kicks. The core of it is maybe 50 lines.

[1] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

The README documents the architecture and rationale. Maybe it will help you figure out yours. Happy hacking!

[1] https://evalapply.org

[2] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite?tab=readme-ov-file#te...

Bookmarked! These look like amazing study projects; the kind one can copy and learn from. Quite like how they do it in art school. Each one of them looks like it solves a nontrivial problem, and edifies the reader on the basic contours/tenets of the problem/solution space.

I love this kind of stuff, because it shows one _can_ solve a pretty juicy problem with not that much code, honestly. Also because it suggests that the industrial-strength equivalent has a lot more in for use cases, corner cases, and/or optimisations that are not relevant for one's requirements (at least not yet, maybe not ever).

I aspire to write code like that. Useful, concise, but not obtuse. Some of my code is not as significant as those examples, and maybe falls short of my ideals, but it gets a lot done in well under 500 loc. e.g. my website maker in Bash [1] (hot-builds and hot-refreshes without JS), or the JS that drives text art animations for Hanukkah of Data [2].

[1] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite is about 350 LoC counted this way (excluding the script containing HTML templates).

  $ grep -E -v "^$|\\s?#" bin/{events,metadata,templating,utils,hotreload}.sh | wc -l

I love the code [1]. Mine [2] is a bit over engineered because I wanted hot-reloading (without JS), and it was a delightful yak shave.

But the basic idea is the same --- heredocs for templating, using a plaintext -> html compiler (pandoc in my case), an intermediate CSV for index generation.

Very nice!

[1] https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh

[2] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

xdotool emulates user actions under the X Window System (e.g. typing, mouse around, click etc.).

I'm using it to send keypresses to the browser, as you rightly observe.

So if I want to just reload a page, the browser gets F5.

To GOTO some page, it gets a stream of keystrokes for the URL characters and then Enter.

It's really that simple-minded, and it works!

This case statement covers my usage: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/hotre...

Pandoc powers my little static site maker:

cf. https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/templ...

  __shite_templating_compile_source_to_html() {