Chris Baumbauer: Personal Musings

Blog update and other forms of past time development

A few months ago, I finally began work on revamping not only revamping my personal site, but also creating a templating mechanism to allow for submitting a blog or post without needing to code up the post in straight HTML.

The end of September saw the first incantation of the site taking shape, but of course the posting to the blog saw little activity with the various distractions of work. Also, posting on the website is one thing, but automatically notifying that a post has been made is something else. Of course, this means going back to the text editor.

In no short order, here are a few of the things that I've done since the initial release:

• Added support for posting to some social media networks such as Twitter, and App.net. I've also started looking at Facebook as well, but the posting mechanism seems to have been revamped since the last time I looked at it.
• Added support for tagging posts, and created an indexing mechanism.
• Lastly, added the ability to make posts via email.

So far these are just initial versions and all have some slight quirks that need to be debugged, but what project doesn't? The Facebook integration is dependent upon the oAuth keys being refreshed within each invocation which becomes painful for someone to authorize each time a post is made. Meanwhile, posting things via email currently supports plain text blogs and straight posts, but no real support for other attachments. The only thing that seems to work completely is the tagging mechanism.

One other note for the email posting mechanism. This one not only provided an excuse for learning Go, but also the transport mechanism used by exim4 to replace piping commands through the /etc/aliases database.

Topics: email, features, software development, hello world,

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