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So, I have been part of a Tilde community for a while, a public unix server known as tilde.cafe[1].

Because of that, I got access to some nice things, like a website, a gemini capsule and an email address, which is kind of nice. I have been using that site as a place to mirror this very same website in case anything happens. Like losing my current domain or anything like that.

Blop[2] is a pretty nice static site generator that is basically just a bash script that uses other programs such as sed, awk and pandoc to put together a simple site generated from markdown files and simple templates.

However, it had a pretty serious issue, at least for me. The generated html files ended with `*.html` instead of being a clean url like here in Jekyll.

So I forked the project, put some work into it and I actually managed to do it!

I am not that great of a bash coder, and it was not really a matter of bash but of knowing where to look and using `/` to search for the right things in Vim.

In the end I now have clean URLs in my alternative site[3], which is kind of great.

You can take a look at my fork, which is not really that different from the original in my tildegit[4] repository.

This has been day 83 of #100DaysToOffload[5]

1: https://tilde.cafe

2: https://gitlab.com/uoou/blop/

3: https://chrono.tilde.cafe

4: https://tildegit.org/chrono/blop

5: https://100daystooffload.com