Simple Blogging System (working title)

A blogging system designed to be simpler to use than existing solutions such as Hugo and Jekyll.

Goals

An outline of what I intend to accomplish with this project:

Design

Simple and easy to use. Instructions for use should not be very long, and a user familiar with blogging systems should be able to understand this without much effort.

Documentation should be simple and easy to understand for non-technical users.

Creation of a few CSS styles for simple blog layouts, but otherwise no big complicated themes, no JavaScript, and no hacky HTML generation.

Minimal external dependencies:

• lowdown for compiling markdown to HTML
• optipng for optimizing PNGs
• ImageMagick for optimizing JPGs, resizing images

Functionality

Does exactly what a blog needs:

• Basic metadata for each post
• Atom feed creation
• Optional table of contents (three levels)
• Support for static pages
• Content written in markdown
• Basic website styling -> One CSS file

And some extra quality-of-life features:

• Image thumbnail creation
• Parallel page compilation
• Integration with Mastodon-API for posting when a new blog post is published.