I’ve been using my self-written generator for microblogging on neocities for a while. It’s also linked in the Webweaving resources.
Features:
vs a real microblogging service:
microblog.py is less suited for posts-as-conversation starters. It’s better for retrospection, collecting and organizing posts and notes by tag.
I’m always looking for feedback and people to add to its webring.
nice. I originally started out writing my own simple static generator in python and at some point traded it for a more established solution. I don’t think I was skilled enough to do what I wanted to do at the time I started it but it’s a great project idea.
Sometimes the eccentricities of static site generators are annoying, and you have to spend a lot of of time learning the ins and outs before you get to a point where you can truly do whatever you want.
In that respect there’s something to be said for just doing it all yourself.
It’s been a while since I posted to this thread. I updated a microblog a bit for:
On the new feature, you can subscribe to a microblog with a feed reader. You can follow the general timeline or pick specific tags . I’m still looking if there are any problems in the rss feeds being generated. So there may be bugs.