Bash Blogger

I have been experimenting a bit with some weblog software called Bash Blogger. If you haven’t guessed by the name, it uses Bash as the main processing engine with Vi (by default, is changable) for writing/editing. It spits out plain html and all the entries are stored as plain text which makes backups easy as pie.

Security is also good. You’re not running any form of database server which is one less thing to get compromised, plus the site being in plain html means that your database won’t choke if you get slashdotted. You also don’t need to worry too much about hardening your web server, there are no dynamic parts to exploit. If something bad does happen, just use the rebuild function.

The main downside of Bash Blogger is that there is no support for tags. Not a huge deal but once you get into the habit of tagging posts its a tad annoying to stop. The other thing is a lack of comments, which could be a benefit (no spam or folk being assholes). I could just have a mailto link and have folk email me their thoughts and then I copy/paste into the relevant entry.

Need to play some more with BashBlogger, I’m undecided if I want to replace WordPress with it.