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It took me some time to realize that my blogging could benefit from some automation. Indeed, I'm often doing some sort of literate programming to show the internals of some Ruby voodoo, using my xmp decorator to display execution results, which means that I cannot use something like WEB (or a language-independent tool like noweb).

This meta-entry shows how I usually blog, using a sort of "reverse|ruby weave" script I hacked in 15 (?) minutes, shown below. It extracts the code snippets so that I can scp them to the webserver, where they get prettified by my modified attach.rb plugin for hiki. The following (~90s) movie shows what I did to create this entry: