I feel like an old man when it comes to the web. This racket blog appears
to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more

Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives -- for
example using github + jekyll?

Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the data.

-Ryan

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ryan Newton <> wrote:
> I feel like an old man when it comes to the web.  This racket blog appears
> to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:
>
>    http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more

The Racket folks have simply set up blog.racket-lang.org to point to
Google's servers.

>
> Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives -- for
> example using github + jekyll?
>
> Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
> anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the data.
>

I like the idea of using generated static pages with outsourced
comments, and I've used Disqus on a website before, but I would
hesitate to trust Disqus with anything valuable. They do have an
export utility (http://docs.disqus.com/developers/export/) but
importing that data, of course, is left as an exercise to the reader.

Maybe there are some decent Haskell/Scheme-powered blogging systems
out there? I know wingolog.org is powered with Scheme + Git.

Eric

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My Galois colleague Jonathan Daugherty has an experimental mathblog package
that I've been meaning to try. The project README should be helpful to
decide whether it's right for you: https://github.com/jtdaugherty/mathblog

Adam

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Eric Jiang <> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ryan Newton <> wrote:
> > I feel like an old man when it comes to the web. This racket blog
> appears
> > to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:
> >
> > http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more
>
> The Racket folks have simply set up blog.racket-lang.org to point to
> Google's servers.
>
> >
> > Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives --
> for
> > example using github + jekyll?
> >
> > Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
> > anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the data.
> >
>
> I like the idea of using generated static pages with outsourced
> comments, and I've used Disqus on a website before, but I would
> hesitate to trust Disqus with anything valuable. They do have an
> export utility (http://docs.disqus.com/developers/export/) but
> importing that data, of course, is left as an exercise to the reader.
>
> Maybe there are some decent Haskell/Scheme-powered blogging systems
> out there? I know wingolog.org is powered with Scheme + Git.
>
> Eric
>
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In that racket post, the system they describe basically generates html
which you can then upload to a standard blogging service. It looks like
there are some similar pipelines for Haskell

- literate haskell -> hscolor -> markdown

http://passingcuriosity.com/2008/literate-haskell-with-markdown-syntax-hightlighting/
- emacs org mode + htmlize
http://ghc-simd.blogspot.com/2012/03/simd-support-for-vector-library.html

And since it looks like google's command line tools let you upload to
blogger on the command line maybe this workflow is fine.

As long as you have the data offline, I am satisfied. Still, the generated
static pages with a complete snapshot of the blog in github seems
attractive...

-Ryan


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Eric Jiang <> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ryan Newton <> wrote:
> > I feel like an old man when it comes to the web. This racket blog
> appears
> > to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:
> >
> > http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more
>
> The Racket folks have simply set up blog.racket-lang.org to point to
> Google's servers.
>
> >
> > Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives --
> for
> > example using github + jekyll?
> >
> > Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
> > anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the data.
> >
>
> I like the idea of using generated static pages with outsourced
> comments, and I've used Disqus on a website before, but I would
> hesitate to trust Disqus with anything valuable. They do have an
> export utility (http://docs.disqus.com/developers/export/) but
> importing that data, of course, is left as an exercise to the reader.
>
> Maybe there are some decent Haskell/Scheme-powered blogging systems
> out there? I know wingolog.org is powered with Scheme + Git.
>
> Eric
>

That looks fantastic actually. And well documented.


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Adam Foltzer <> wrote:

> My Galois colleague Jonathan Daugherty has an experimental mathblog
> package that I've been meaning to try. The project README should be helpful
> to decide whether it's right for you:
> https://github.com/jtdaugherty/mathblog
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Eric Jiang <> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ryan Newton <> wrote:
>> > I feel like an old man when it comes to the web. This racket blog
>> appears
>> > to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:
>> >
>> > http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more
>>
>> The Racket folks have simply set up blog.racket-lang.org to point to
>> Google's servers.
>>
>> >
>> > Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives --
>> for
>> > example using github + jekyll?
>> >
>> > Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
>> > anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the
>> data.
>> >
>>
>> I like the idea of using generated static pages with outsourced
>> comments, and I've used Disqus on a website before, but I would
>> hesitate to trust Disqus with anything valuable. They do have an
>> export utility (http://docs.disqus.com/developers/export/) but
>> importing that data, of course, is left as an exercise to the reader.
>>
>> Maybe there are some decent Haskell/Scheme-powered blogging systems
>> out there? I know wingolog.org is powered with Scheme + Git.
>>
>> Eric
>>
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ryan Newton <> wrote:
> I feel like an old man when it comes to the web.  This racket blog appears
> to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:
>
>    http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more
>
> Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives -- for
> example using github + jekyll?
>
> Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
> anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the data.
>
>   -Ryan

If you haven't seen Octopress (http://octopress.org/) you might take a
look. It's supposed to take a lot of the heavy lifting out of the
github + jekyll setup. The disadvantage is that there's not that much
of an ecosystem around it yet, so there aren't a lot of themes
available, that sort of thing.

Lindsey

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If you liked jekyll, http://www.spintoapp.com/ is a hosted solution
with option to CNAME the blog to your own (sub)domain.

* edit files in git and "git push" to publish
* edit posts online and "git pull" to get the changes.
* CNAME allows you to maintain control of the domain

CNAME is not an option for ~yourname style blogging, but handy
for yourname.cs.foo.edu style blogging.

-Pradeep

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Lindsey Kuper <> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ryan Newton <> wrote:
>> I feel like an old man when it comes to the web.  This racket blog appears
>> to be powered by blogger, but embedded in their website:
>>
>>    http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/04/scribble-your-blogs.html#more
>>
>> Has anybody out there tried any of the more hacker-ish alternatives -- for
>> example using github + jekyll?
>>
>> Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
>> anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the data.
>>
>>   -Ryan
>
> If you haven't seen Octopress (http://octopress.org/) you might take a
> look.  It's supposed to take a lot of the heavy lifting out of the
> github + jekyll setup.  The disadvantage is that there's not that much
> of an ecosystem around it yet, so there aren't a lot of themes
> available, that sort of thing.
>
> Lindsey
>
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On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 13:43 -0400, Ryan Newton wrote:
> Some people mention jekyll + Disqus for comments, but I haven't seen
> anything indicating that Disqus allows downloading/archiving of the
> data.

I am no expert here, but for most things I tend to roll my own. On the
other hand, I have been using some simple blog software lately, mostly
because I do not have the time or inclination right now to roll my own
RSS feed generator.

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