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+On owning blogosphere
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+
+:date: 2016-01-27T13:16:07
+:category: computer
+:tags: owncloud, blog, pelican
+
+(originally comment on blogpost_ by Dave Winner)
+
+I was thinking about this a lot especially from the point of view of
+owning my own data. The first version of how to do it was “the canonical
+version is on my harddrive in some reasonable format, WordPress is just
+for presentation to be discarded anytime” (even more important because
+WP pulverizes anything resembling HTML into its own disgusting mush).
+For that I started to use (and extended) `b.py`_ (with reStructuredText_
+sources; originally from elsewhere_, but upstream didn’t accepted my
+changes) and used WP on `my own server`_.
+
+Then inevitable happened: my server died, so I have to rebuild my
+site. My colleagues from work shared rented VPS so I joined them
+and pointed my domain to it. However, when I started to work on
+installing WP, I was caught again by my suspicions about WP. Do I
+really want to fight with pulverized HTML, zillion upgrades,
+comment spam, etc., when all I want from the server is to render
+my posts to HTML? So, I started to look for static web
+generators. After a brief affair with Hexo_ (Server-side
+JavaScript looks like such a good idea, but it still so immature
+and unuseable!) I ended up with pelican_.
+
+The only problem is of course the only dynamic part of my blog,
+which are comments. For now I have Disqus on my site as everybody
+else, but I am very unhappy with it. Sometimes, when I have time
+I will try to make Isso_ working for me, but I have failed so
+far.
+
+.. _blogpost:
+    http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/26/0934.html
+
+.. _`b.py`:
+    https://gitlab.com/mcepl/b.py
+
+.. _elsewhere:
+    http://bitbucket.org/livibetter/b.py
+
+.. _reStructuredText:
+    http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html
+
+.. _`my own server`:
+    http://scripting.com/stories/2010/07/08/peopleHostingTheirOwnServe.html
+
+.. _Hexo:
+    https://hexo.io/
+
+.. _pelican:
+    http://blog.getpelican.com/
+
+.. _Isso:
+    https://posativ.org/isso/