Now, the notable thing about my version is that I have curl versions of the entirety of my blog, rather than just one or two pages being available. This is entirely due to a convenient coincidence: over four years ago I implemented outputting ANSI-marked-up plaintext in my custom markup language I use for my blog, Gemroff. Originally it was just to allow convenient previewing of drafts in the terminal while writing; but it was trivial to plug into my static site generator to immediately get Curl versions generated.
I did manually write a wrapper template for blog posts, as well as a template for the index page listing posts, but that plus a few extra lines in my static site generator was all that was needed to wire it up.
This is the main thing that makes it hard to say "it's easy!" since it was only easy for me because I use an entirely custom markup language and static site generator and I happened to make the right design choices years ago-e.g. my SSG also happened to already have support for multiple, modular output formats instead of solely HTML like other SSGs, since I tri-host my site on HTTP, Gemini, and Gopher.
Fancy Curl Sites
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18
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I did manually write a wrapper template for blog posts, as well as a template for the index page listing posts, but that plus a few extra lines in my static site generator was all that was needed to wire it up.
This is the main thing that makes it hard to say "it's easy!" since it was only easy for me because I use an entirely custom markup language and static site generator and I happened to make the right design choices years ago-e.g. my SSG also happened to already have support for multiple, modular output formats instead of solely HTML like other SSGs, since I tri-host my site on HTTP, Gemini, and Gopher.
Fancy Curl Sites
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18