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Hacking Ng

I noticed I was keeping scraps of info that I write up in text format. So the most natural thing to do was find a way to enhance this. A long time ago I used to write up all my posts in POD format then run a small perl script to upload the HTML object code to the web.

 

This time it's not POD but Markdown. Simply edit in a text editor, save into a directory and run a python script over it to output the object code - in this case HTML.

 

Why?

 

Well by nature I'm lazy and I use flickr as my blog engine. I could just as easily add the blog over to github which handles revisions and reads Markdown natively. But I also look over at scripting.com and read Dave Winer warning of the dangers of not controlling your own presence with your own tools.

 

So it's back to hacking something useful with Ng.

 

Object code

The output can be HTML which can be sent to posterous or RSS or JSON. If you don't own the data you miss out on the ability to re-format the source.

 

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