https://github.com/eigenhombre/weeds

Work in progress porting my blog software to Common Lisp
https://github.com/eigenhombre/weeds

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Work in progress porting my blog software to Common Lisp

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eigenhombre/weeds
• Owner: eigenhombre
• Created: 2019-08-07T13:49:19.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-09-18T01:54:18.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-08T02:52:20.538Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: blogs, common-lisp
• Language: Common Lisp
• Size: 215 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.org

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[[./weeds.png]]

I'm rewriting my blog software for the fifth or sixth time, this time

in Common Lisp ... /am I in the weeds yet?/

OK, so [[https://github.com/eigenhombre/organa][my existing blog software]] is working well enough.

But, it's kind of slow to run, with >100 blog posts. I could probably

optimize it... but... lately I'm getting interested in Common Lisp, so

what you'll find here is an in-progress rewrite of [[https://github.com/eigenhombre/organa][Organa]] in Common Lisp

Why? For one thing, Common Lisp is /fast/. It's a great horrid

gorgeous ancient fire-breathing beast of a language, but damn, it

smokes compared to Clojure, Python, ....  Plus, [[https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp][this]]. And [[http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html][this]], and

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc][this]].

* Objectives

** Current

I want to keep some [[https://github.com/eigenhombre/organa#faq][principles]] from Organa:

- statically generated site; no database

- posts written in Emacs Org Mode and exported using that tool to

  HTML, then knitted and massaged by the blog software into a

  coherent, inter-linked whole;

- categories / tags

- support for drafts, static files, etc.

- facilities for images, with captions, etc.

** New

- better support for short posts and images (use cases from Twitter,

  Tumblr, and Instagram, none of which I really want to use anymore)

- redesigned home page

- way faster execution

* Building

Do you really want to get lost in the weeds?  I didn't think so.

Currently this software won't work anywhere but on my personal laptop,

though I may generalize it if I'm happy enough with it.

If decide to wade in, you might want to set up Common Lisp first (if

you're on a Mac, [[https://github.com/eigenhombre/mac-sbcl-quicklisp-install][this repo]] might be helpful).

To build the binary for the program, I run =./build.sh= and to run it,

I run =./weeds=. This currently takes less than a second, as

compared to nearly 30 seconds for Organa (not counting roughly the

same amount of time to build the überjar).

* Stuff to do next

- Add / adapt CSS styling from Organa

- Fix / adapt images

- Make postcard summaries for front page view

- Image-only (or mostly image) posts

- Make a new home page

- +Extract and show post tags+

- +Make an index page with every post on it+

- +Determine and save post dates+

- +Determine and save post titles+

- +Figure out how to break up large file+

- +Figure out how to auto-evaluate multiple dependencies at the REPL+

See [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57461266/auto-load-dependent-files-in-repl][this question]]. Solution is a little hack-y but OK for now.