Every Static Site Workflow Ever

Except mine runs my own blog generator.

Editing

iA Writer > TIG ¹

I prefer writing in iA Writer on the iPad, it’s simple, it’s multimarkdown, and I’ve had it since version 1 on an iPhone 4s.

Publishing

The strategy is simple, and common. Push to a repo, TravisCI picks up the tag, runs the build instructions which has a step to clone my generator, jenny, and run it against a clone of the blog source repo, and then finally push to gh-pages branch.

So here’s the travis config to automate the generate a jenny blog.

language: bash

before_install:
  - sudo apt-get -qq update
  - git clone https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6.git mmd
  - (cd mmd && make release && cd build && make && sudo make install)
  - git clone https://github.com/hmngwy/jenny.git jenny
  - (cd jenny; sudo make install)
  - mkdir .dist

script:
  - jenny

deploy:
  fqdn: manilafunctional.com
  provider: pages
  local_dir: .dist
  skip_cleanup: true
  github_token: $GITHUB_TOKEN
  target_branch: gh-pages
  on:
    branch: master

Tags: blogging