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1 Meet bitsyblog: bitsyblog doesn't do much, but it could do less
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3 Why yet another blogging app? Because I wanted to blog from
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4 the command line and emacs and stubbornly decided it was easier
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5 to write a new blog than to write a front-end script for
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6 wordpress
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8 No, really! In my cursory survey of blogging software, there
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9 wasn't anything out there that seemed RESTful and minimalist.
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10 I don't want a blog that does much; I want to throw content (a
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11 little or much) on the web quickly and in the way I want to do
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12 it. I also dislike that most blogging software seems monolithic.
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13 From the "less is better" school of thought, I tend to believe
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14 that a piece of software should do one thing and one thing well
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16 What does bitsyblog do?
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17 * blogging. Only blogging
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18 * (...and setting user preferences)
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19 * (...and auth snuck in their too)
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21 What doesn't bitsyblog do?
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22 * commenting
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23 * tagging
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24 * uploading/managing files
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25 * turn all your text emoticons to animated gifs
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26 * all of these could be done with WSGI middleware
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28 Isn't WSGI middleware just another way of building a monolith? Not if its
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29 done right. If your app is dependent on middleware, or vice
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30 versa, then yes. Commenting on a blog post is the same as commmenting
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31 on a wiki page.
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33 But what if the user wants to delete their blog post?
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34 Should the comments get deleted as well? This points to a
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35 possible coupling between the app and the client. The solution
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36 of course is to not allow users to delete blog posts.
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37 (Incidentally, using HTTP's DELETE could be used to solve this. Too bad this
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38 isn't doable in today's browsers)
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40 So how does bitsyblog work?
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41 * webob and paste are used to process and serve HTTP
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42 * restructured text is used for blog formatting
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43 * auth is built on paste.auth
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45 What is next for bitsyblog? Feeds and some cleanup and little details.
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46 Then middleware (probably commenting first).
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48 What is up with the mice? I caught them eating cheese in the cheeseshop,
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49 so I put them to work in my logo.
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51 How do I get bitsyblog? Go to http://bitsyblog.biz/
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52 Also, its on the cheeseshop
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54 Your blog probably doesn't do much ... but could it do less?