susam.net

Unrelated to the topic described in the blog itself, I overall like the theme of `susam.net`. The name itself reminded me of a sesame seed in Turkish for a while. (I think author had recently mentioned one of the recent posts that they wanted to get susam.com but that was already taken by a Turkish company selling some spices...) The content (that shows up in HN) is also good. Since I am on mobile device, I cannot tell the exact font used, but seems like Georgia to me. While https://github.com/susam/susam.net hosts the actual source code of the website. Another remark: Would be really nice to have a same theme adaptation for BearBlog and similar places.

Not for you then. That is perfectly fine. I have been using this approach for seven years now, and it has worked very well for me. For anyone else who is interested in taking a look, here is my setup: * The server-side program that processes the POST requests: https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.5.0/form.lisp#L254... * The static site generator reads the comment files and renders them alongside the rest of the website: https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.5.0/site.lisp#L869... * End result: https://susam.net/comments/ The last link shows the consolidated comments page that lists all approved comments posted across my entire personal website. The 'View original comment' link under each comment points to the individual comment page for each post.

I have always had a comments section on my website since its early days. Originally, my website was written as a set of PHP pages. Back then, I had a PHP page that served as the comment form. So later when I switched to Common Lisp, I rewrote the comment form in it. It's a single, self-contained server side program that fits in a single file [1]. It runs as a service [2] on the web server [2], serves the comment and subscriber forms, accepts the form submissions and writes them to text files on the web server. [1] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/form.lisp [2] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/etc/form.servi... [3] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/etc/nginx/http...