Neil Brown4d ago

My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG.

So far, so good! I'm not quite ready to switch over just yet, but it has been pretty straightforward so far.

Show threadStefano Marinelli4d ago
@neil That's great! Please note that the unreleased master branch includes a very effective RAM-only build mode, which makes things significantly faster. Also, three new BSD-based themes are coming 🙂
Show threadNeil Brown4d ago

@stefano

This is an amazing tool - thank you!

"RAM" mode caused quite a lot of errors for me, so I switched to "normal" mode, and that is building fine.

Do you have any plans to add config parameters (to be used in the header template), for

<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="{{fedi-creator}}" />

or

<link rel="me" href="{{fedi_validation_account"/>

?

At the moment, I am adding them to the template without variables, meaning that I'll need multiple instances of BSSG, one per site :)

Show threadStefano Marinelli4d ago

@neil Interesting! Could you please send me the errors you had when using ram mode? So I can debug them.

Those config parameters are a good idea. I'm adding them to the templates, too - consider that the templates can be overridden per-project, in the project directory - so you can use the same BSSG installation as long as it points to different configurations (generated with ./bssg.sh init )

For example, I'm currently building the https://my-notes.dragas.net (my "reference" blog for bssg testing) with: ./bssg.sh build -f --config /home/stefano/sites/my-notes/config.sh.local --build-mode ram

Thank you for your precious feedback!

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Show threadNeil Brown4d ago

@stefano

> consider that the templates can be overridden per-project, in the project directory

Oooh, thank you. I had not identified this from the documentation, so thank you!

Show threadNeil Brown4d ago
@stefano I love the separate of tool from content, so that much I am already doing - but I had not realised that one could use per-project/directory templates too. I will experiment :)
Show threadStefano Marinelli4d ago
@neil maybe you need to set the TEMPLATES_DIR="/home/stefano/sites/my-notes/templates" (for example) inside the config.sh.local in the project directory. I can't remember if I implemented it automatically or has to be set manually. Otherwise, you can override it at build time with --templates "dir"
Show threadNeil Brown

@stefano

```
--templates DIR Override templates directory (from config: TEMPLATES_DIR)
```

:)

Mar 13 at 6:36pmWeb
Show threadStefano Marinelli4d ago
@neil yes, exactly. It can also be specified in the config file. I'm not sure if it will automatically be used if a templates directory is created in the project folder. It was planned, but I can't remember if I already implemented it or not (can't check the code right now)
Show threadNeil Brown4d ago

@stefano

Ah, okay!

I am just going to specify it explicitly in the config file, because that should then cover all bases.