Re:Show HN: My static blog/site generator: "Shithead"
by riffraff on Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:27AM
(#4141627)
I come from a background where swearing, loudly, is considered ok. Think Samuel L. Jackson in "pulp fiction" except my language has, I reckon, a metric ton more swearwords.
First time I worked in a team of people of different language I ended up involuntarily teaching them a lot of them because I was swearing a lot while coding.
But honestly, I don't understand the choice to use vulgar words in naming your project.
What does all of that stuff do? Why does lightning need YAML and pickle? Why does hyde need to mirror the entirety of python's os module, including os.walk, for both Files and Folders?
Re:Show HN: My static blog/site generator: "Shithead"
by kba on Saturday June 23, 2012 @12:13PM
(#4151116)
Sorry, but I would never use this, nor recommend it to anybody.
You make it sound like you left out features, because you wanted to keep it simple, but that really just comes off as you being lazy.
RSS could be implemented, without the user of your application knowing it's there.
Besides, on http://teh.oarsum.com/, the links don't work. They're going to /posts\article-name.html, not /posts/article-name.html as they should.
Another thing is you're talking about simplicity, yet you include Bootstrapper.
I realize that Bootstrapper is probably not included by default and is something you added in the template, but it just emphasizes the fact that you have mixed goals.
Besides, you don't really use anything from Bootstrapper other than the spans. On top of that, you haven't bothered to edit the LESS files to fit your needs, instead you just overwrite that with another CSS. That is not simplicity, that is just laziness.
And last, but definitely not least... Quirks Mode. Just no.
First time I worked in a team of people of different language I ended up involuntarily teaching them a lot of them because I was swearing a lot while coding.
But honestly, I don't understand the choice to use vulgar words in naming your project.
EDIT: but +1 for using WikiCreole!
Worth watching is lighting [1]. Its main feature is the incremental building which looks really promising.
[1] https://github.com/borismus/lightning
For example, take a look at https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde/blob/master/hydeengine/f... or https://github.com/borismus/lightning/blob/master/lightning
What does all of that stuff do? Why does lightning need YAML and pickle? Why does hyde need to mirror the entirety of python's os module, including os.walk, for both Files and Folders?
Now compare that to my version: https://bitbucket.org/anthonyb/shithead/src/8a8e5787cf6a/blo... , which is essentially the entire engine, file system handling and building code.
http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/publish-a-web-site-with-bash-s...
You make it sound like you left out features, because you wanted to keep it simple, but that really just comes off as you being lazy.
RSS could be implemented, without the user of your application knowing it's there.
Besides, on http://teh.oarsum.com/, the links don't work. They're going to /posts\article-name.html, not /posts/article-name.html as they should.
Another thing is you're talking about simplicity, yet you include Bootstrapper.
I realize that Bootstrapper is probably not included by default and is something you added in the template, but it just emphasizes the fact that you have mixed goals.
Besides, you don't really use anything from Bootstrapper other than the spans. On top of that, you haven't bothered to edit the LESS files to fit your needs, instead you just overwrite that with another CSS. That is not simplicity, that is just laziness.
And last, but definitely not least... Quirks Mode. Just no.
The rest of your issues seem to be with the template - you're free to develop your own if you don't like mine, or don't like bootstrap, or whatever.