Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

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• > The reason being that Orgmode is a far superior format [to markdown]

  I have to disagree with this. I will admit there are some things org mode does better than markdown, but there are also things it does worse. And probably the biggest is alluded to in the rest of that sentence: "[the] only downside is that you have to be inside Emacs to fully enjoy."

  A while ago, I read a blog post about how orgmode was better than markdown[1], that got me interested enough to try it out with neovim[2] using the nvim-orgmode[3] plugin. Admittedly, some of my issues were bugs or missing features in that plugin. But, at least in my opinion, orgmode is just as flawed as markdown, even in some of the same ways. Some of the issues are:

  - like the original markdown it isn't precisely specified so there are ambiguities in the description of the synatax, and the definitive specification is just the emacs implementation.

  - while it is more consistent than markdown in some ways, it is also less consistent in other ways

  - it is designed for, well, organizational tasks, so while it is well suited for things like todo lists and agendas, it isn't quite as well suited for things like writing a blog post

  - probably the one that frustrated me the most is there are cases where it is quite clunky and/or difficult to express something. For example, if you put a "$" in an inline code object, in some cases that will be parsed as the start of LaTeX inline math object, especially if you have two "$"s. And from what I can tell, the standard way to work around that is to use a zero-width space in the right place.

  Would I say that org mode is strictly inferior to markdown? No. But I don't think it is strictly superior either.

  [1]: I think it may have been https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ but I'm not sure

  [2]: I did use emacs for a few years, and still have a few emacs-like keybindings, but neovim is my preferred editor now.

  [3]: https://github.com/nvim-orgmode/orgmode

  by thayne
• Use https://dumindu.github.io/E25DX/ kind minimal theme or build a simple GoHugo theme and cut your tech-stack to 1 executable.

  If you're reimplementing the wheel, at least do it in latest tech + minimal tech.

  by dumindunuwan
• I use org-mode (mainly for vocabulary-building in English and other languages), but I steer clear of its complicated html-compiling functions, as I have a hard time remembering all the different options and keybindings.

  I also prefer Elixir to Gleam, but I still think this is a pretty neat setup!

  by misterdj1
• I prefer to write words not code. I use WordPress because it hides all the complexity and lets me just write instead of messing with Markdown (or an entire separate system), CI pipelines, custom markup hacks for page features, Emacs cruft, etc..

  Yeah WordPress is a security nightmare, but Ghost's editor sucks and there's no viable open-source alternatives with modern security and features.

  by writtenone
• mine has no org-mode...which is fine...I like markdown:

  find . -name '*.md' -type f -exec sh -c '

    for file do  
      out="docs/${file#./}"  
      out="${out%.md}.html"
      mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out")"  
      pandoc --quiet --template template.html "$file" -o "$out"  
    done  

  ' sh {} +
  by malkosta
• Current iteration of my blog is pure Elisp (org-publish). It is very simple. I like that I understand effectively whole thing bottom-up, and making any changes to machinery by advising Elisp is ridiculously easy. Being able to export the whole buffer with exact looks and feel of my Emacs theme is cherry-on-top. I like the overall feel of the thing, it has everything I need and nothing more.

  My only gripe is that it is quite slow. My blog is pretty small, so having to wait on Emacs to build the whole thing is not fun. If my blog ever gets in the range of needing to compile hundred plus posts, I'll be seriously looking at alternatives. But until then, I get to enjoy just writing posts and exporting them with single keystroke.

  by e3bc54b2
• I don't understand why gleam and pandoc are in there. Org-mode can already generate HTML. A little bit of Emacs Lisp turns it into a blogging engine.

  https://ahungry.com/blog/2013-04-01-blogging-with-org-mode.h...

  by throwaway81523