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  10                         <h1>Dscho's blog</h1>
  11                         <h6>Thursday, 22nd of January, Anno Domini MMIX, at the hour of the Rabbit</h6>
  12                         <h2>My blog has style</h2>
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  16                         It is official.  The blog has a style sheet now.
  17                         </p><p>
  18                         The major problem was how to design the system such that it would work
  19                         both locally and on <a href=http://repo.or.cz>repo.or.cz</a> via gitweb.
  20                         </p><p>
  21                         Basically, I realized that I'd need a dry run mode anyway, to prevent
  22                         all my failed attemp.. oops, I meant, to prevent an accidental push
  23                         when I am at an, ahem, intermediate state of the 'blog' branch.
  24                         </p><p>
  25                         Therefore, I could write a different file locally, which I can load
  26                         into my venerable Firefox.
  27                         </p><p>
  28                         The next plans with my new toy are to enable an easy way to support
  29                         showing images, and then maybe a table of contents.  External links
  30                         would be cool (<a href=http://repo.or.cz>repo.or.cz</a> does not count, it is special-cased), too.
  31                         </p><p>
  32                         And later maybe a cut-off, with automatic generation of links to older
  33                         posts.  Hmm, for those, I'll have to change the URL to include the
  34                         current commit name, so that the images will be found, too...
  35                         </p><p>
  36                         Which in turn means that I'll have to parse the source for new
  37                         images first, so that they can be in the commit that index.html
  38                         will link to, <u>before</u> it gets committed.  Oh well, that cannot be
  39                         helped! &#x263a;
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  41                         <h6>Thursday, 22nd of January, Anno Domini MMIX, at the hour of the Tiger</h6>
  42                         <h2>My new blog system... bloGit</h2>
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  46                         Nowadays, you got to have your blog.  Or better: your blogs.  Even Junio
  47                         blogs about Git.
  48                         </p><p>
  49                         So I felt a little left behind, having no blog to show off.  But then
  50                         I read about this fantastic new website on the mailing list, called
  51                         <i>git planet</i> which was supposed to be a place where you could have your
  52                         Git located blog.
  53                         </p><p>
  54                         Except that you could not have your blog <u>there</u>.  Instead, it is just an
  55                         aggregator site.
  56                         </p><p>
  57                         I was disappointed.
  58                         </p><p>
  59                         But then, I had this (in my humble opinion very cute) idea that I already used to "publish"
  60                         my slides from the talk "Contributing with Git (AKA All your rebase are
  61                         belong to us)": back then, I just created a new branch, committed the
  62                         file, and uploaded the result to <a href=http://repo.or.cz>repo.or.cz</a>, to be downloaded via Gitweb.
  63                         </p><p>
  64                         So I asked Pasky via IRC, if he would have any objections if I abused
  65                         <a href=http://repo.or.cz>repo.or.cz</a> as a blog server.  He understood at once, and found it "sounds
  66                         like a pretty cool idea".
  67                         </p><p>
  68                         Of course, just writing plain HTML and committing that is <i>too easy</i>,
  69                         therefore I decided to write a shell script that would turn some sort
  70                         of simple text file into proper HTML, commit it, and upload the result.
  71                         </p><p>
  72                         Well, about two hours later, I finished the first version of the script
  73                         turning plain text with minimal markup into an HTML page, and it obviously
  74                         worked -- otherwise nobody would be able to read this &#x263a;
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