Quality of Life Improvements

2024–06–06

I haven’t circled back to barf in quite a bit of time, so I’m happy to announce a small update mainly focused on quality of life improvements! I’ll keep things brief and get right into the core changes:

Automatic detection of your operating system (supports Linux, macOS and OpenBSD currently)

• barf now checks your current OS and sets aliases accordingly
• this removes the need to hard-set your own aliases or run syslinks

Added a semantically valid RSS feed

• barf initially launched with Atom support only, now a separate RSS feed is generated at build time

Removed hardcoded feed links from header.html

• You now only need to set your main domain at the top of the core barf file.

Swapped out smu for lowdown

IMPORTANT! This is no longer true. I have gone to back to using my own forked version of smu

• The default Markdown parser is now set to lowdown. The original parser (smu) is great, but I wanted to make the project simpler by avoiding users to clone and build a separate package.

That’s it really! I’ve also updated the original blog posts about setting up barf on macOS and OpenBSD to reflect these changes.

Cheers!