# Phlogging Setup
## 2019-10-02 15:47

I  now  have  a   working  phlog.  Exciting!  It's  also
available via RSS[1], on the  web[2] and, er, on the web
via RSS[3].

The first version  was all fancy, with  a gophermap file
for each entry.  This looked good and  allowed for handy
stuff like navigation  links, but it felt a  bit off, as
if I were trying to use gopher as a wonky version of the
web. (Also,  writing gophermaps  is rather fiddly  and I
kept making mistakes.)

So,  I  switched to  a  simple  setup:  each post  is  a
text  file,  spiced  up  with some  basic  Markdown  and
footnote-style  reference  links.  To  make  posts  look
pretty, I have vim's `formatprg` set to `par -w56 -j`.

To ease  the phlogging  process, I  wrote a  little bash
script called `whip`[4], which takes  a post title as an
argument,  makes a  new text  file in  the right  place,
opens it  for editing, then adds  a link to the  post to
the  phlog's  gophermap.  (It  can also  set  up  a  new
phlog  and  at  some  point  soon,  it'll  generate  the
alternate  versions of  the  phlog too,  like a  rubbish
tilde.club-specific version of burrow[5].)

[1]: gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~mot/phlog/rss.xml
[2]: https://tilde.club/~mot/
[3]: https://tilde.club/~mot/index.xml
[4]: gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~mot/files/whip
[5]: https://github.com/jamestomasino/burrow

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