title: How the Blog System Works date: 2026-01-29

description: The architecture of Simpatico's blog - posts as markdown, generated index and RSS

The independent data of a blog are the posts. In simpatico, these are simply markdown files in a directory. The dependent data are the index and rss files. These are generated from the posts. The dependent data is generated by the blog command after you've authored a new post. You can run the blog command in any directory with markdown files and it will generate an index and rss file for you.

The blog command is a node script that runs in your local simpatico server. It is not a web service.

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