Atom extension for Tinkerer

Sean Gillies — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Tinkerer, the software I'm using for my blog, lacks a good Atom feed, so last night I wrote my first Sphinx extension to provide one. Rutherford adds a couple new config items and a full content Atom feed. It exposes the Tinker categories and tags and tracks the modification times of posted .rst files so that feeds and their entries get updated accordingly. My own feed is http://sgillies.net/blog/feed.atom.

I'm becoming a fan of the Sphinx extension story, at least for simple cases like mine. Python's packaging situation continues to get better and there are all kinds of wins for insisting that extensions (think QGIS plugins) be Python packages: support from pip and setuptools, version pinning, package dependency resolution, etc.

System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 20)

Unknown directive type "summary".

.. summary:: I'm becoming a fan of the Sphinx extension story

Downgrading my blog

Sean Gillies — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Welcome to my new blog. It's made with Tinkerer. I'm calling it a downgrade because there's no more database, no more comments, no more Python objects published for every request. It's just rsync and static HTML generated by Tinkerer and Sphinx from ReStructured Text docs I type into Vim. There are moving parts in this new blog, but they are all on my laptop. None of them are deployed to a web server.

My old posts were all written using ReST, so migrating is going to be easy peasy. Until I get around to it, old posts will be at http://sgillies.net/olden-days-blog/ and I'll make sure the old URLs redirect.

Sean Gillies (Posts about sphinx)

Atom extension for Tinkerer

Downgrading my blog