If you enjoyed yesterday’s post about Daniel Gomez using Org-mode to write his thesis, perhaps you’ll also like his other offering, An Emacs Library for frictionless Blogging.
Gomez publishes his blog on write.as, a publishing platform that allows you to make a blog post, say, by sending the Markdown content in an HTML POST request. If you read yesterday’s post, you know that Gomez is an avid Emacs and Org-mode user so naturally he wanted to write his posts with Org-mode and publish them directly from Emacs. To do that he wrote a small library that takes an Org file, extracts the title, converts the Org formatting to Markdown, sends the Markdown to write.as, and retrieves the publishing information from write.as in return.
It’s an excellent solution if you don’t mind having your blog be part of a “federated” platform such as write.as. It’s perfect for someone like Gomez, who as a PhD student and occasional blogger, doesn’t have the time or inclination to deal with a dedicated server (or virtual server) and a more complicated blogging platform such as WordPress. Once he wrote his library, publishing a post consists of writing it and calling a single function to publish it.
Take a look at Gomez’s post for the details. His code is available on GitHub.