Faff is a blogging platform implemented in Go, which retrieves posts from a local GIT repository.

Faff has been the server behind Population Algorithms for over a month now with no downtime. Some features include:

• Keepalive
• Pipelining
• Integrated DISQUS threads
• Integrated Tweet and Facebook like buttons
• Tagging
• Support for LaTeX math using MathJax

There are many features that will come as the need arises:

• Search by keywords or tags
• Themes
• Pages
• etc.

You need a working installation of Go. Pull this repository

git clone git://github.com/petar/Faff.git Faff-git

Install the GoHTTP packages

goinstall github.com/petar/GoHTTP/util
goinstall github.com/petar/GoHTTP/http
goinstall github.com/petar/GoHTTP/server
goinstall github.com/petar/GoHTTP/server/subs
goinstall github.com/petar/GoHTTP/template

Build the Faff sever

cd Faff-git
make && make install

Unpack the MathJax distribution somewhere on your machine, and create a symbolic link to it inside Faff's static files directory

cd Faff-git/static
ln -s path-to-root-of-mathjax mathjax

Create a config file for your server. You can see an example in

example/example.config

Run the Faff server

faff -bind=:80 -static=Faff-git/static -config=your-site-config -dir=your-git-posts-directory

Note that your-git-posts-directory is a GIT working directory on your file system that contains your posts. The next section explains how to set this up.

Coming soon ...

Faff was written by Petar Maymounkov.

Follow me on Twitter @maymounkov!