# This blog is now written in Markdown and synced with OwnCloud
This has been an idea that has been brewing in my mind for a while - create a simple blog that I can write from anywhere, using standard Markdown syntax. Here's the [repo](https://gitlab.com/pisquared/pisquared) of the project.

The blog itself is a Flask webapp with sqlite database that has a `BlogPost` table. The trick is that the table is acutally synced with flat files in a folder. Each file is a blog post entry. The folder itself is synced by owncloud client which is running as a daemon (currently behind a `tmux` but will do it as a systemd service soon). 

The key of the syncer is in the [flatfile_syncer.py file](https://gitlab.com/pisquared/pisquared/blob/master/flatfile_syncer.py). The sync is currently one-directional - when a file is created/updated/deleted, a blog post is created/updated/deleted. As an admin, you can CUD blog posts from the web interface but these are currently not synced to the file system. 

So whenever I start writing a (non-hidden) file in that folder, the contents are created as a blog post. There is still work to be done to make this blog fully functional like perma-links for the blog entries, index, tags and uploading images (probably also synced) but for now it will do.  

**to be continued...**