# jlongster/blog

All the sources for my (not powered by React anymore) blog

Repository: https://github.com/jlongster/blog
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jlongster-blog
Language: CSS
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-01-03T23:50:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4251, "days_push": 1338, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1209, forks 73 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:59.765007+00:00)

## What it is
The source code for James Long's personal blog (jlongster.com), a simple Node.js server that indexes blog posts from the filesystem. It previously used React, Redux, and React Router for server-side rendering, but the current version has dropped React in favor of a simpler setup.

## Use cases
- run a simple personal blog without a database
- serve blog posts directly from the filesystem
- study how a minimal blog server is structured
- compare a React SSR blog implementation with a plain server version
- self-host a lightweight writing site

## When to choose
- you want a minimal, dependency-light blog server
- you want to study or fork a real personal blog codebase
- you prefer serving posts straight from the filesystem without a CMS

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade or actively maintained blogging platform
- you want React-based server-side rendering (that lives on the react-blog branch)
- you expect documentation, support, or new features - the author explicitly says use at your own risk

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-server, static-site-generator, ssr, templating
- domain: web-development, cms, frontend, backend, documentation
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: personal-blog, blog-engine, server-side-rendering, react, redux, react-router, css, static-content, filesystem-indexing, james-long, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- jlongster/blog (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.765007+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:18:35.323610+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jlongster/blog (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.765007+00:00, sha 34ae76fec830)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.