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- Wednesday, January 7, 2014
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- local webservers and static html generation
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- I haven't always run an httpd on my main local machine, but I've been doing it
- again for the last year or two now, and it feels like a major help. I started
- by setting up a development copy of [display][1] under Apache, then noticed
- that it was kind of nice to use it for static files. I'm not sure why it's any
- better than accessing them via the filesystem, except maybe that
- `localhost/foo` is easier to type than `file://home/brennen/something/foo`, but
- it has definitely made me better at checking things before I publish them.
-
- (Why Apache? Well, it was easier to re-derive the configuration I needed for
- p1k3 things under Apache than write it from scratch under nginx, although one
- of these days I may make the leap anyway. I don't see any reason Perl FastCGI
- shouldn't work under nginx. I also still think Apache has its merits, though
- most of my domain knowledge has evaporated over the last few years of doing
- mainly php-fpm under nginx.)
-
- I've resisted the static blog engine thing for a long time now, but lately my
- favorite way to write things is a super-minimal `Makefile`, some files in
- Markdown, and a little bit of Perl wrapping `Text::Markdown::Discount`. I
- haven't yet consolidated all these tools into a single generically reusable
- piece of software, but it would probably be easy enough, and I'll probably go
- for it when I start a third book using this approach.
-
- I'd like to be able to define something like a standard `book/` dir that would
- be to a given text what `.git/` is to the working copy of a repo. I suppose
- you wouldn't need much.
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- book/
- authors
- title
- description
- license
- toc
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- `toc` would just be an ordered list of files to include as "chapters" from the
- root of the project. You'd just organize it however you liked and optionally
- use commands like
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- book add chapter/index.md after other_chapter/index.md
- book move chapter/index.md before other_chapter/index.md
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- to manage it, though really a text editor should be enough. (Maybe I'm
- overthinking this. Maybe there should just be a directory full of chapters
- sorted numerically on leading digits or something, but I've liked being able to
- reorder things in an explicit list.)
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- Before long I might well add handling for some
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- I should add a feature to Display.pm for outputting all of its content
- statically.
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- [1]: https://github.com/brennen/display
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