Last Thursday while researching SSH keys and the tildeverse I signed up for an account at the tilde.team public unix server. They haven’t gotten back to me yet and there’s a decent chance they won’t, since usage of these pubnixes has largely fallen out of favor, which probably means the sysadmins don’t spend as much time receiving SSH key requests or onboarding new members.

On their site they have a list of users with links to their personal websites. Most of them are blank or haven’t been updated in years, but I found a couple of blogs that were using a tool called BashBlog which allows people to write using their text editor of choice and publish to their websites from the command line. I looked over the project’s GitHub repository and the initial announcement by Carles Fellonosa written back in September of 2011 and I really liked the design.

I had been using Water.css as a drop-in stylesheet while I took care of the backend development and the site looked like this:

Starting last night I took the time to recreate the BashBlog design, add a dark mode, and make it responsive. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It looks old for sure, it reminds me of the early 2000s blogs hosted on Wordpress and Blogger. I know I’ll update the design as time goes on but for now I think it’ll be fun to write here.

Here are screenshots of the home screen and the article view!