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diff --git a/tools/blog_cli/README.md b/tools/blog_cli/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7afa0fe9207a --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/blog_cli/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +tazblog CLI +=========== + +My blog stores its content in DNS, spread out over three types of `TXT` entries: + +* `TXT _posts.blog.tazj.in.`: A sorted list of posts, serialised as a JSON list of + strings (e.g. `["1486830338", "1476807384"]`) + +* `TXT _chunks.$postID.blog.tazj.in`: JSON chunks containing the blog post text + +* `TXT _meta.$postID.blog.tazj.in`: JSON blob with blog post metadata + +All JSON blobs are base64-encoded. + +This CLI tool helps to update those records. + +Each blog post data is a series of JSON-encoded structures which follow one of +these formats: + +``` +struct metadata { + chunks: int + title: string + date: date +} +``` + +Where `chunks` describes the number of chunks following this format: + +``` +struct chunk { + c: int + t: string +} +``` + +Writing a blog post to DNS means taking its text and metadata, chunking it up +and writing the chunks. + +Reading a blog post means retrieving all data, reading the metadata and then +assembling the chunks in order. |