Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by HermanMartinus » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:53 PM UTC

aloisdg wrote: post #7

Is it open source? Could I self hosted it?

You can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by eterm » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

I've not worked out when firefox reader view is visible and when it isn't, but for this blog it isn't, which is a shame because I find the chosen font unreadable.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by HermanMartinus » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

baruchel wrote: post #12

Wouldn't twtxt be a better candidate as the most minimal blogging platform? https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This is pretty rad

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by HermanMartinus » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

robjan wrote: post #10

Good idea but not sure if I would call it a blog hosting platform. My understanding is that it hosts a single parsed markdown file on a subdomain of my choosing.

You can write as many posts as you want in markdown, check out the example blog herman.bearblog.dev to see what I mean

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by rammy1234 » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

notadog wrote: post #20

rammy1234 wrote: post #6

Is this different from the note taking app "Bear"

Yes. The only similarity is their names.

Why have the same name that is linked with a well known app. 1. it confuses the user 2. No unique branding as this question is going to crop up again and again. Why the author wants to compete with this name ? Just curious

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by qznc » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

jamil7 wrote: post #14

lazyload wrote: post #5

I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.

I think I'd second this, adding some basic improvements to the typesetting would help a lot and wouldn't cost anything WRT performance.

But then there can be a smaller solution and this one is not the minimal one anymore.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by dan_can_code » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

binaryorganic wrote: post #4

jitl wrote: post #2

“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/

This is a great, great app. I use it and love it.

I agree, bear is great. I miss it - I no longer have an iPhone and am Windows dependent :-(. I have made the best use of OneNote as I can - but the ease of categorisation of thoughts within the bear app will always be the best imo.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by IAmNotAFix » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

https://txti.es/ comes to mind, but I guess its lack of account system makes it not very blog-friendly.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by MattGaiser » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

lazyload wrote: post #5

I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.

Just change the font to something other than Garamond like Verdana. It is a nice font for paper, but not on websites.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by criddell » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

jitl wrote: post #2

“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/

That's what I thought this was - a bit of automation to publish right from the Bear app.