# Phlogging Setup ## 2019-10-02 15:47 I now have a working phlog. Exciting! It's also available via RSS[1], on the web[2] and, er, on the web via RSS[3]. The first version was all fancy, with a gophermap file for each entry. This looked good and allowed for handy stuff like navigation links, but it felt a bit off, as if I were trying to use gopher as a wonky version of the web. (Also, writing gophermaps is rather fiddly and I kept making mistakes.) So, I switched to a simple setup: each post is a text file, spiced up with some basic Markdown and footnote-style reference links. To make posts look pretty, I have vim's `formatprg` set to `par -w56 -j`. To ease the phlogging process, I wrote a little bash script called `whip`[4], which takes a post title as an argument, makes a new text file in the right place, opens it for editing, then adds a link to the post to the phlog's gophermap. (It can also set up a new phlog and at some point soon, it'll generate the alternate versions of the phlog too, like a rubbish tilde.club-specific version of burrow[5].) [1]: gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~mot/phlog/rss.xml [2]: https://tilde.club/~mot/ [3]: https://tilde.club/~mot/index.xml [4]: gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~mot/files/whip [5]: https://github.com/jamestomasino/burrow