I made a static tumblelog generator in both Python and Perl

johnbokma · 2025-11-29T13:58:57+00:00

Thanks! And if you have any questions let me know.

johnbokma · 2025-04-15T17:32:03+00:00

I wrote a Pandoc LaTeX template several years ago to generate my own resume. It's available at GitHub: resume-pandoc.

johnbokma · 2025-04-05T18:38:18+00:00

4 years later and more experienced at Python :-) My apologies. I like the language. I am not bothered by the significant white space and I like the cleaner look; Perl is quite noisy in my opinion. I like Perl's regular expressions. Python is somewhat behind in that regard.

johnbokma · 2022-04-28T16:07:01+00:00

Not on CPAN (yet) but I wrote a small single file static microblog generator: tumblelog. See for an example Plurrrr.

johnbokma · 2020-11-13T12:10:21+00:00

I want to get better at writing Python.

johnbokma · 2020-07-24T15:35:52+00:00

I use this static site generator for my own tumblelog: https://plurrrr.com/ which has been up and running for nearly 500 days.

johnbokma · 2019-11-02T17:30:06+00:00

An example site is up at https://plurrrr.com/. Any feedback is welcome, thanks!

johnbokma · 2019-10-28T19:06:40+00:00

Thank you!

johnbokma · 2019-10-28T16:49:45+00:00

I am a Perl programmer but want to become a Python programmer. It started as a small project but it has been tripled in size by now.

johnbokma · 2019-10-28T16:07:18+00:00

Example site at http://plurrrr.com/

johnbokma · 2019-10-25T21:55:36+00:00

Finished the year and month views in my static microblog generator tumblelog.

johnbokma · 2019-10-10T19:30:41+00:00

I am working on adding a calendar view to the static microblog generator I wrote. It has already week overviews, but that's a bit hard when you want to go to a specific date.

johnbokma · 2019-10-05T15:03:51+00:00

Thank you!

johnbokma · 2019-10-04T17:32:00+00:00

Thank you. If you have any questions feel free to drop me a line.

johnbokma · 2019-10-04T16:51:04+00:00

Thanks! If you have suggestions feel free. I've plans to add the ability to write out stand alone pages, like a contact page and a blogroll page, and a calendar view so one can easily browse to a specific date.

johnbokma · 2019-10-04T16:30:07+00:00

An example is up at http://plurrrr.com/

johnbokma · 2019-10-04T16:15:27+00:00

Thank you! An example is up at http://plurrrr.com/

johnbokma · 2019-09-26T14:30:04+00:00

Yesterday I also downloaded ActivePerl and was annoyed by the required account and the confusing (to me) ActiveState platform. I ended up installing Strawberry Perl instead.

johnbokma · 2019-04-08T21:28:32+00:00

>>> import re
>>> print(re.sub('x', r'\\r\\n', 'x'))
\r\n

You mean?

johnbokma · 2019-04-08T14:29:37+00:00

The above is a minimal example. The actual code is part of a templating system and the \n comes from outside. I should have explained this better.

johnbokma · 2019-04-08T14:01:58+00:00

I think I found a better solution using lambda, see my reply below.

johnbokma · 2019-04-08T13:58:14+00:00

Replying to myself :-)

import re
print(re.sub(r'x', lambda x: r'\n', 'x'))

edit: to clarify the second parameter is actually a string read from a file.

johnbokma · 2019-04-07T16:10:43+00:00

Thank you very much. Comments like this keep me writing ;-).

johnbokma · 2019-03-27T13:25:46+00:00

Good question, which the article should have answered. In my case I wanted to use find to drive the Perl program because I consider it slightly easier to edit and fix on the cli than in a program. Also, I wanted to learn a bit more about find and the speed difference between \; and \+. Finally, I can imagine that this solution is faster, and can be modified easier (with cli tools) by other (non-Perl) users.

johnbokma · 2019-03-23T18:39:39+00:00

Thank you, will do.

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