val blogging = true

I have something I want to express; time to blog up. So, tooling: what to use these days?

• I am completely addicted to org-mode. The syntax org uses is kind of a markdown variant. It has become my native written English “dialect.” So, blogging in org syntax is a major goal. Org has excellent export capabilities. Perhaps exporting will not even come into play but it is a nice fallback to have in store.
• When architecting, I love to use static content as much as possible so a static site generator seems like the right type of machinery to choose for blogging.
• I’m all about that open source so GitHub is in the picture. GitHub uses Jekyll to host static pages.

So, Plan A is: org to Octopress to Jekyll, with Octostrap to make it pretty. I will dialed in Bootstrap to look a lot like GitHub. So, that’s Octopress looking like Github via Bootstrap. Let’s call it… octopussstrap in deference to Oxley’s original intent.

If you want more details, the write-up is at tigue.com blog machinery. (That’s a stable URL, the content behind which I will update as I tweak things out; with updates noted here in this blog.)

Please feel free to fork octopussstrap and even rip it wholesale. It’s MIT licensed. On the other hand, I could see where other folks would want this same thing, so PRs are welcome. Rocket science? No. Useful? I like it.