./blog.sh 1.10

./blog.sh 1.10 is out — release on GitHub.

The release that opens a door for programs. Every screen you read before you act, and every action it offers you, can now answer as data too. A program on another machine reaches them over the SSH the server already has, and only through one script that lets it run one engine command and nothing else. It connects with a code ./blog.sh pair draws in the terminal, so nobody types an address or a key anywhere. This is what the native apps for iOS and Android, now in preparation, are built on.

Around it, the archive says more about itself. An "On this day" card shows posts from this day in earlier years, /series/ is an index of every series, a page of a listing says which days it covers, and the 404 page offers a search already filled in with the words of the address it could not find. On a Mac, ./setup.sh offers an icon in Applications, so the blog opens without typing into a terminal. And the second language from 1.9 has grown up: a series has a name in each language, and a translation keeps its old addresses the way a post does.

One thing ahead of time: the /write/ page and the SendPost shortcut go away in 1.11, and the apps take their place. In 1.10 they work as before.

Nothing to migrate — git pull, rebuild, deploy. The card of a photo post now carries the photo and every listing says more about itself, so the first deploy sends nearly every page once; an ordinary day of publishing costs what it did. If you write in a language that inflects names, set site.author_name. Full notes →