{"id":1866,"date":"2009-01-30T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2009-01-30T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:47:15","slug":"wildcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/wildcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2009\/01\/30\/new_publishing_system_tour_of_my_head\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2009\/01\/30\/new_publishing_system_tour_of_my_head\"><p>It&rsquo;s written in Ruby, but doesn&rsquo;t use Rails. It runs on my desktop. Each post is a separate file, and the publishing system renders static pages, which get pushed to the server via rsync.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is amusing because I also liked the BBEdit\/Frontier Web publishing system and was inspired by Dave Winer&rsquo;s work. But I wanted to store the data in the filesystem and use version control. So, around 2000, I wrote my own similar system in Perl called Mesh. I&rsquo;ve since rewritten it in Python, and I use it to manage all my sites. Like Simmons, I use rsync and git. Unlike Simmons, I use WordPress for the actual blog. Of course, I use Mesh to render the templates for WordPress.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: It&rsquo;s written in Ruby, but doesn&rsquo;t use Rails. It runs on my desktop. Each post is a separate file, and the publishing system renders static pages, which get pushed to the server via rsync. This is amusing because I also liked the BBEdit\/Frontier Web publishing system and was inspired by Dave Winer&rsquo;s work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}