Many of my traditional blog post live on this site, but a great majority of my social-style posts can be found on my much-busier microbloging site at updates.passthejoe.net. It's busier because my BlogPoster "microblogging" script generates short, Twitter-style posts from the Linux or Windows (or anywhere you can run Ruby with too many Gems) command line, uploads them to the web server and send them out on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds.
I used to post to this blog via scripts and Unix/Linux utilities (curl and Unison) that helped me mirror the files locally and on the server. Since this site recently moved hosts, none of that is set up. I'm just using SFTP and SSH to write posts and manage the site.
Disqus comments are not live just yet because I'm not sure about what I'm going to do for the domain on this site. I'll probably restore the old domain at first just to have some continuity, but for now I like using the "free" domain from this site's new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net.
I was making things hard on myself. I was trying to do a big code block on this blog in Markdown with backticks all over the place.
But the way it works in Markdown, you just tab or indent four spaces, and it's all wrapped in <pre>
and <code>
with all the tags rewritten so they'll show up the right way on your live site.
Backticks like `this` (which renders like this
on this site) are still good for shorter code blocks on a single line.
But for longer code blocks, it's better to tab 'em.