Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

4 comments

• malkosta 5 minutes ago
  mine has no org-mode...which is fine...I like markdown:

  find . -name '*.md' -type f -exec sh -c '

    for file do  
      out="docs/${file#./}"  
      out="${out%.md}.html"
      mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out")"  
      pandoc --quiet --template template.html "$file" -o "$out"  
    done  

  ' sh {} +
• throwaway81523 17 minutes ago
  I don't understand why gleam and pandoc are in there. Org-mode can already generate HTML. A little bit of Emacs Lisp turns it into a blogging engine.

  https://ahungry.com/blog/2013-04-01-blogging-with-org-mode.h...
• writtenone 1 hour ago
  I prefer to write words not code. I use WordPress because it hides all the complexity and lets me just write instead of messing with Markdown (or an entire separate system), CI pipelines, custom markup hacks for page features, Emacs cruft, etc..

  Yeah WordPress is a security nightmare, but Ghost's editor sucks and there's no viable open-source alternatives with modern security and features.

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  • Telemakhos 9 minutes ago
    Someone who spends his day in emacs writing code and org-mode for work will have the muscle-memory and lisp knowledge to make emacs and org-mode as easy for him as WordPress is for you.

    I've been subscribed to a mailing list for many years, of which perhaps half I actively participated in the mailing list. Almost the entire time I used alpine, a terminal mail client, hosted on a remote server, getting its mail from and sending it through gmail. A stupid setup, perhaps, but it was productive, and I wrote. Since giving up that setup (I wiped and repurposed the server) and trying to use gmail's web interface or Mac's mail application, I've been silent. So, I understand the author's desire for a setup that might seem arcane or byzantine: sometimes there's something about such a system that is comfortable and keeps you writing.
• mad44 1 hour ago
  This is a classic bell-curve meme. The midwit gets lost in complex setups, but the smartest approach is simply to write, regardless of the platform.

  https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/800th-blog-post-wr...