newpost

📘 A simple terminal-based tool to generate blog post markdown files and placeholder image assets.

✨ Features

• TUI (Text-based UI) input form
• Generates Jekyll-compatible markdown files with front matter
• Automatically creates associated image paths and placeholder image
• Fast and easy to use

🚀 Usage

newpost

You will be prompted to enter a title. A new markdown file will be created in the _posts directory, and a placeholder image will be generated based on the current date.

Example Output

• _posts/2025-07-05-my-title.md
• 2025/07/05/ChatGPT_Image.webp

🛠 Installation

From source

go install github.com/nzwsch/newpost@latest

Or manually:

go build -o newpost
sudo install -m 755 newpost /usr/local/bin/

As Debian package

sudo dpkg -i newpost_1.0.0.deb

🗂 Directory structure

.
├── newpost            # Compiled binary
├── _posts/            # Markdown output
├── YYYY/MM/DD/        # Image output structure

📦 Packaging

To build a .deb package:

make package
sudo dpkg -i newpost_1.0.0_amd64.deb

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENCE.md file for details.

👤 Author

Seiichi Yonezawa