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Faster Blogging: A Developer's Dream Setup

glee our dev friendly blogging setup has been undergoing a huge transformation for the last few weeks. For those who don't know, glee is a simple open source CLI tool that converts markdown posts into ghost blog posts.
Check out the glee demo video when you have a moment!
glee: Dev-friendly Blogging Setup

glee is one of the top open source products in the product hunt in the month of October 2023. glee was in the top 5 and got the product of the day award with 153 upvotes from worldwide.

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glee Drawbacks

glee is rich in blogging features but has some drawbacks. One of the main drawbacks is its compatibility with multiple operating systems and system architectures. We lost one potential customer due to glee incompatibility in macOS.
Another major issue is the deployment time. We built the first version of glee entirely in Python and used nuitka, nuitka compiles Python programs into a single executable binary file. We need to create three separate stages for creating executable binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux in deployment, and it takes around 20 minutes to complete.

From Python to Golang

Based on insights and learnings from building our other Open source CLI tool called Lama2, an API Client Manager that is completely built upon Golang and has better compatibility for various OS and OS architectures, we decided to... Continue reading the full article at https://journal.hexmos.com/developer-markdown-blog-hexmos-glee/

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