Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

A blogging tool called bashblog is making a very specific promise: just one Bash script, no installation drama, and your blog is live. In plain English, that means you drop one file into a public web folder, type a simple command, write your post, and it spits out a clean, static blog with extras like tags, drafts, and even an RSS feed. For minimalists, this is basically catnip. One admirer summed up the mood in two words: “Glorious.” Another went full nostalgia trip, comparing it to the old-school tool nanoblogger, which gave the whole thread a warm “they don’t make ’em like this anymore” energy.

But of course the real show was the comment-section civil war. One camp was enchanted by the sheer simplicity of it all: good old Bash, no bloat, no fuss, no giant software stack just to post your thoughts online. The other camp looked at a 1,000-line shell script and saw pure chaos. One critic bluntly declared Bash “maybe worst than C for this task,” while another basically begged the universe to invent anything—anything—better than having to trust Bash plus a handful of command-line tools.

Then came the trust drama. One commenter liked the idea but side-eyed the download source, complaining about using “the Microsoft Github page of a random developer,” which turned a cute tiny-blog story into a mini debate about software trust, open-source principles, and whether downvotes are the internet’s pettiest weapon. So yes: a tiny blog script arrived, and somehow the comments delivered nostalgia, snobbery, fear, and a full-on Bash identity crisis.