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

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jonas21 » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

toastercat wrote: post #60

For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/

For other bear-themed writing tools:

* https://bear.app/

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by meerita » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

I am glad that people are creating these services, but I always see a problem with this: what happens if the developer can no longer maintain the service or does not scale economically. All the blogs will end up being lost. Unless the developer is a philanthropist who plans to keep this up to the end of the day, I see these services as ideal for very specific things, not as your new home.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by dunefox » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

I need something simple like this but with syntax highlighting, images and Latex support with the option to host it myself.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by XCSme » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:38 PM UTC

I noticed someone asked about self-hosting: I already had a PHP site so I wanted an easy way to integrate a blog in my site. I ended up creating a micro-blogging library[0], which just renders markdown as blog posts. The advantage is that there is no build step, you only write markdown files (VSCode has live-preview by default for markdown) and you have easy versioning as markdown is just text. [0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by apozem » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

rgrs wrote: post #37

dan_can_code wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Try Joplin. As a heavy user of markdown for notes, i wanted something cross-platform across OSes and devices. Joplin fits my requirements perfectly.

I want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by lazyjones » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

pmachinery wrote: post #94

lazyjones wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.

Not sure if it's what you mean, but: (hashify) 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197 (shortly) 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696127

Yes, that's what I mean. But only Hashify still exists apparently...

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by pmachinery » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #106

pmachinery wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if it's what you mean, but: (hashify) 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197 (shortly) 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696127

Yes, that's what I mean. But only Hashify still exists apparently...

Yeah, the pages linked from those HN links don't seem to exist, but you can still download it:

https://github.com/lucaspiller/shortly

I was always quite fascinated by the concept, but I suspect liability and lack of control over the content is a fatal issue and why nothing much seemed to come from it.

If someone makes a 'bad' page, which is inevitable, the domain with the hashify/shortly code would be held responsible and the only way the site owner could 'remove' the content would be to stop the service.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by PascLeRasc » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

apozem wrote: post #105

rgrs wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Joplin. As a heavy user of markdown for notes, i wanted something cross-platform across OSes and devices. Joplin fits my requirements perfectly.

I want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.

I'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by fwip » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #83

toastercat wrote: post #60

For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/

I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.

If you're sending a 2KB URL to somebody, you can also just copy&paste the text of your blog post.

But yeah, you'd miss out on styling it.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by CydeWeys » Tue, May 26, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

Small suggestion -- it seems like you're using the wrong units (or maybe abbreviations) for your displayed average page sizes. You're using lower-case b to indicate bits, but I suspect you mean upper-case B to indicate bytes? Also, the lower-case k is the correct prefix for 1,000, but lower case m is milli, or 1/000. You want M for mega, which is 1,000,000.

Also if you really want to be precise you should consider whether you're using binary prefixes vs SI prefixes, e.g. kB (10^3 bytes) vs kiB (2^10 bytes). That doesn't matter as much because the error is small for these lower values, but the casing errors definitely do matter. "mb" means millibars to me, not Megabytes!