Serene Bach
a Go weblog engine that runs as CGI or HTTP
Details
- External ID
- 48165898
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Serene Bach
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4168012924071082
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I originally made Serene Bach in the 2000s as a weblog engine written in Perl CGI. I rebuilt it from scratch in Go as a single binary that can run either as a CGI program or as a normal HTTP server.I know CGI is generally considered legacy technology now, but I still rely on it for shared hosting. In this version, I added Markdown support, a responsive default theme, Open Graph image generation, and static output generation.It is still in beta, but the repository includes a Docker image published on GHCR, documentation, and a local quick start. I'd appreciate feedback from anyone interested in small self-hosted publishing tools, especially if you still care about shared hosting or CGI-style deployment.
Enrichment
- Theme
- local AI inference and ComfyUI tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- go weblog engine for cgi or http
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a self-contained Go-based blog engine providing basic CRUD for posts, markdown rendering, and serving via standard HTTP/CGI.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
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