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john-bokma
tumblelog
Perl2019–2026
john-bokma / tumblelog

tumblelog

A static tumblelog generator available as both a Perl and Python version

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What it is

A static tumblelog generator available as both a Perl and Python version

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

May I recommend the static site generator I wrote? [0] It comes with 12 different styles. Certainly not the best blog design, but they are easy to modify. My tumblelog [1] is…

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HN mentions by year75 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-04-25 12:22:45 UTC to 2026-01-17 16:52:08 UTC.

01020302019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 3 submissions, 29 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 6 submissions, 16 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 5 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC32329
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22616
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC752
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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jjjbokma·Jan 17, 2026
Wow, the 5 seconds one is really fast! My static microblog generator [1] takes 30 seconds to generate 2600+ HTML pages from a single Markdown file (it uses a single Markdown file with additional directives to define seperate posts). Example can be visited at [2]. Tested on a Mac mini Late 2014 (!). I plan to buy an M4 or M5 Mac mini later this year. Curious how fast it will generate my blog then. [1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog/ [2] https://plurrrr.com/
In Show HN: Render static blog/document site in seconds with Methanol
jjjbokma·Apr 19, 2025
It's nice to read someone else's take on writing an SSG. I wrote one [0] specifically to generate a microblog [1] so I use a single markdown file with additional directives to provide meta data like tags and to split the file in blog entries. I am considering writing an SSG that can handle a large blog so I bookmarked your site for inspiration; thanks! I probably am going to use Python for it, though. [0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog [1] https://plurrrr.com/
In Minimalist static site generator pattern only for JavaScript developers
jjjbokma·Apr 26, 2022
How well does it handle a large amount of writes to small files (say 1000 files, each about 8KB)? Edit: the static blog generator I wrote [1] takes 11 seconds inside a Ubuntu virtual machine with the directory shared with MacOS on an Mac mini late 2014. Docker, on the same machine, takes 1m13 seconds using gRPC FUSE for file sharing. 1866 HTML files are being generated. [1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
In Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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