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 A simple single-page blog written in RiotJS and Flask
 
-It is still very much a work in progress, but you can see it in action at https://wesk.tech/blog
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 Includes a tag that pulls projects from Github and puts them in a carousel-like
 UI, as well as a post editor that handles markdown.
 
@@ -15,3 +13,5 @@ create `app/riotblog_local.cfg` and add these variables
 - SECRET_KEY (whatever you want)
 - ADMIN_PASSWORD (whatever you want)
 - COUCHDB_NAME (the name of the couchdb database)
+- COUCHDB_USER (usually admin)
+- COUCHDB_NAME (whatever you want)