2026 Blaugust 03 - XBlog Intro

So I'm writing yet another CMS, well I'm hoping this will be the last one, stop laughing. It's a system I've been thinking about for a while now. A single place I can go to interact with the IndieWeb. I've only just found out about social readers and that's sort of the thing I want. But I also want it to work as my blog writing toolkit. Seeing as it's just a system for me I can make it the way I want so here is my current wish list for XBlog - Dave's CMS. XBlog Feed Reader I've been getting more annoyed with FreshRSS in the way it presents the posts and how you manage the feeds. Not to mention the way it makes me feel to see that I have over a hundred unread posts. I need to make my own reader. Writer I need an all purpose posting tool, so I can do Micro, Photo, longform, and any other sort of post with the frontmatter/meta data easily accessible from the post screen. Bookshelf I like to track the books I'm reading and I want something like what you get on The StoryGraph but I want it…