Erlenmeyer

A blogging tool for science and research written in Python using Flask.

Homepage : Erlenmeyer

This is Erlenmeyer, a simple blogging platform written in Python using Flask, because, let's face it, the world needed another blogging platform. Like all blogging tools, Erlenmeyer is incomplete, unfinished, and will probably wind up being abandoned by the author as soon as you get it working.

Because apathy and abandonment is the fate of all web tools (especially blogging tools), Erlenmeyer is designed to be the 1963 VW Bug of blogging software. It is not intended to be elegant. It is not intended to be fast. It is not intended to "scale," whatever that means. It is not intended to be extendable. Instead, Erlenmeyer is intended to be simple enough for you to modify, improve, optimize, extend and hack yourself, even if you are not much of a web programmer. Because, like the author, you just want to write things and stick them on the internet, and you don't want your life to include words like, "deploy" and "migrate."

That said, it isn't really intended to be minimalist either. Erlenmeyer is designed to actually work. It is a People's Blogging Tool, designed to provide many long years of use. The driver should be able to keep it running herself with just a few basic tools and a calm, responsible attitude. One shouldn't need to be a genius or a professional to keep a blog running.

Usage

After installing the dependencies, you should be able to launch Erlenmeyer in two easy steps :

$ ./init.sh
$ ./erlenmeyer.py

Then point your browser at http://localhost:5000.

Credits and dependencies

Erlenmeyer includes these awesome pieces of software :

• Bootstrap
• markdown.js
• jQuery
• Bootstrap-Markdown
• MathJax
• Prettify

Erlenmeyer depends on these awesome pieces of software :

• Python
• Flask
• PIL
• sqlite3
• pandoc
• pyandoc

Inspiration