coleslaw

Coleslaw aims to be flexible blog software suitable for replacing a single-user static site compiler such as Jekyll. Coleslaw was a nickname of my favorite poet Czeslaw Milosz.

Features

• Git for storage
• RSS feeds!
• Markdown Support with Code Highlighting provided by colorize.
  • Currently supports: Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, C, C++, Java, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Objective-C, Diff.
  • Python, Erlang, Haskell, Objective-C, and Diff are in my local colorize fork only for the moment.
• Plugins to...
  • Use LaTeX (inside pairs of ) via Mathjax
  • Import from wordpress

Installation

This software should be portable to any conforming Common Lisp implementation but this guide will assume SBCL is installed. Testing has also been done on CCL. Server side setup:

1. Setup git and create a bare repo as shown here.
2. Install Lisp and Quicklisp.
3. For now, git clone https://github.com/redline6561/coleslaw.git inside ~/quicklisp/local-projects/. This is only temporarily necessary until coleslaw is in quicklisp.
4. cp coleslaw/example.coleslawrc ~/.coleslawrc # and edit as necessary
5. cp coleslaw/example.post-receieve your-blog.git/hooks/post-receive # and edit as necessary
6. chmod +x your-blog/.git/hooks/post-receive
7. Create or clone your blog repo locally. Add your server as a remote with git remote add prod git@my-host.com:path/to/repo.git
8. The only thing left to do is point a web server of your choice at the symlink /path/to/deploy-dir/.curr/

Now whenever you push a new commit to the server, coleslaw will update your blog automatically! You may need to git push -u prod master the first time.

The Post Format

Coleslaw expects post files to be formatted as follows:

;;;;;
title: foo
date: yyyy-mm-dd timestamp
tags: bar, baz
format: html (for raw html) or md (for markdown)
;;;;;
your post

Importing from Wordpress

There is a "plugin" to import from wordpress. At some point, it should be turned into a standalone script. Until then...

1. Export your posts from wordpress.
2. In your lisp of choice, do the following:
   1. (ql:quickload 'coleslaw)
   2. (in-package :coleslaw)
   3. (load-plugins '(import))
   4. (coleslaw-import::import-posts "/path/to/export.xml")

The XML will be read and placed into .post files in the :repo location specified in your .coleslawrc.

Writing your own plugins

For now, see the API the mathjax plugin for an example. A proper guide about this should be written later.

Theming

A default theme, hyde, is provided. Themes are made using Google's closure-template and the source for hyde should be simple and instructive until I can provide better docs.