You want to write something and share it with the world. But you'd need to set up a blog. Woe! Who has the time?
Hold up there, sunshine. Blurt's got your back. This is everything you really need to write and publish stuff on the internet.
- Create a repo from this template
- On your repo, go to settings -> Pages -> Source: select GitHub Actions
- Clone your repo
Now just write your posts (see docs below), commit and push. After a short while, your repo should have a deployment (check the right side).
That's it!
- pandoc - for the actual heavy lifting
- python3 (optional) - for the dev server (
startcommand) - fswatch (optional) - for instant rebuilds during development
# Create a new post
./blurt new "My Post Title"
# Create and open in $EDITOR
./blurt new -e "My Post Title"
# Build the site
./blurt build
# Watch, rebuild, and serve at http://localhost:8000
./blurt start├── blurt # CLI
├── config.yaml # Settings
├── templates/
│ ├── index.html # Index page template
│ └── post.html # Post page template
├── static/ # Static files (copied to dist/)
├── posts/ # Markdown posts
└── dist/ # Generated site
Templates use pandoc's variable syntax:
$blog_title$- from config.yaml$title$- post title from frontmatter$date$- post date from frontmatter$body$- converted markdown content
Posts are markdown files with YAML frontmatter:
---
title: My Post Title
date: 2026-01-13
---
Post content here.Output goes to dist/my-post-title/index.html for clean URLs.