fleet

Microblog (or just blog) to your Flounder page from your terminal.

What?

If you're the type of person who thinks writing your Flounder posts from vim¹ sounds cool then you're the target audience. Bonuses of this are formatting is consistent, posts are dated automatically, and long entries are prompted to be promoted to gemlog entries.

¹Or emacs, I guess.

How?

git clone https://github.com/mikeevmm/fleet
cd fleet
bash install.sh     # Follow instructions

then,

fleet

Yes, but how?

Python and sshfs. And a little parsing combinating, which could have been regex, frankly.

What else?

fleet uses your $VISUAL editor to prompt you for your posts. If this variable is unset, it defaults to /usr/bin/vim.

You can submit your post by saving and quitting from the editor; if you leave with an empty message, or unchanged, the post is aborted.

Small posts will be posted to <your username>.flounder.online/journal.gmi; posts are grouped under a level 1 header indicating the date of posting.

You can see my journal as an example.

If a post is longer than a tweet (280 characters), fleet will ask you whether you want to write a gemlog instead. In this case, you'll be prompted for a title, and a file will be created in the gemlog folder, with title <year>-<month>-<day><title>.gmi.

Just in case anything goes wrong, a backup of the existing journal.gmi file is saved before changes. You can find this backup in this folder, under the name .journal.bak.

Submitting the post can take some time (~10 seconds). This is normal and is due to sshfs.

License

fleet is licensed under a GNU General Public License v2. This informally means that:

You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track
changes/dates in source files. Any modifications to or software including
(via compiler) GPL-licensed code must also be made available under the GPL
along with build & install instructions.

See LICENSE for the full text.

Support

Getting donations, no matter how small, lets me know that people use and appreciate the software I've put out. (Enough so to pay for it.)

If you like fleet, please consider buying me a coffee.