makeblog

A simple static blog generator written in BSD make.

Why?

• I had grown tired of overly complicated and fragile blog engines.
  • Wanted to type make and have it "just work"
• Wanted to write posts locally in VIM instead of via a web browser.
• Didn't want dependencies of other static blog generators; ruby, python, etc.
• Wanted to track posts and history in SCM; i.e. git.

Features

• Basic blog
  • Markdown
  • history/archive
  • drafts
  • RSS feed
• Media
  • image thumbnailing
  • video conversion to HTML5 (h264, ogg vorbis)
• templates
• tiny, ~400 LOC makefile

Disclaimer

I threw this to the public as an example. If there is interest I can polish and clean it up.