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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by dna_polymerase »

jedberg wrote: post #207
sequoia wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm struggling to understand what you mean by self-hosted. What does AWS Lambda do in this scenario? Surely not host the blog, so it must be the "cms"? At that point I'm not clear why you'd rule out netlify, as it's no longer "self-hosted." Please clarify! :)

My imagined workflow is * load a web page * write words * hit submit * this triggers a lambda function that generates a static website and puts it on s3 * this triggers another lambda function that pokes the CDN and expires anything that changed By self-hosted I mean I control all the parts. I can change the generation code, the CDN upload/expiration code, I can change the output, I can view the logs, all within my o…

* Use a texteditor

* Hit save

* Let Hugo/Jekyll/Pelican/whatever compile

* FTP/SCP onto a server

* It's a blog, nobody needs a CDN for that

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by anderspitman »

jedberg wrote: post #188

Things I would like in a blogging platform: * Generate lightweight static website * Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it * Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary. * Self-hosted * Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient * Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anyw…

Sounds like you just need a way to modify a remote filesystem, then trigger a build step when you're done with the modifications.

Assuming it was wrapped up in a nice UI, would that be missing any features you need?

EDIT: Put more concretely, if you had a site hosted on S3, all you need is a way to modify the source files of that site, either directly or by modifying files in another directory and running a transform step to produce the final result?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by bignell »

mosselman wrote: post #189
shrutipathak wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto. I thought this is a new product by bear. Got me excited for a bit. I wonder if trademark would kick in later for this.

What a world we live in that we have to worry about trademark issues for the name of one of the most common animal names a child could think of.

I mean, if they wanted to reserve the use of this common animal name across all industries, that’d be ridiculous, but it would seem pretty reasonable to worry about confusion between a cloud notes app and a cloud blog app. Certainly easier to think about it now than if this service takes off.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

dna_polymerase wrote: post #211
jedberg wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My imagined workflow is * load a web page * write words * hit submit * this triggers a lambda function that generates a static website and puts it on s3 * this triggers another lambda function that pokes the CDN and expires anything that changed By self-hosted I mean I control all the parts. I can change the generation code, the CDN upload/expiration code, I can change the output, I can view the logs, all within my o…

* Use a texteditor * Hit save * Let Hugo/Jekyll/Pelican/whatever compile * FTP/SCP onto a server * It's a blog, nobody needs a CDN for that

* Use a texteditor

Where? On my iPhone?

* Hit save

Where does it save it to?

* Let Hugo/Jekyll/Pelican/whatever compile

Where does that happen? If I want to write on my phone it won't compile on my phone.

* FTP/SCP onto a server

From my phone? Also I specifically don't want to run a server, or more specifically, I don't want to pay for a server to run all the time.

* It's a blog, nobody needs a CDN for that

If you're writing about high scalability, it's a bit embarrassing and ruins your credibility if your site isn't speedy worldwide.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

anderspitman wrote: post #212
jedberg wrote: post #188

Things I would like in a blogging platform: * Generate lightweight static website * Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it * Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary. * Self-hosted * Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient * Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anyw…

Sounds like you just need a way to modify a remote filesystem, then trigger a build step when you're done with the modifications. Assuming it was wrapped up in a nice UI, would that be missing any features you need? EDIT: Put more concretely, if you had a site hosted on S3, all you need is a way to modify the source files of that site, either directly or by modifying files in another directory and running a transform…

That pretty much sums it up!

It needs to have some sort of awareness of file changes to expire items from the CDN too.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by brnt »

ken wrote: post #171
snazz wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notably, storage vendors and many operating system vendors use different units to describe capacity, so hard disks will always seem small as a result of this. [edit: add qualifying "many"]

Who? Not macOS [1], or Ubuntu [2]. Does Windows still use base-2? They probably shouldn't [3]. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402 [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy [3]: https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html

I distinctly recall GNOME on Ubuntu using kibibytes. This may have been in the GNOME 2 era. Had thuis changed?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by sneak »

Note to security researchers: per the TOS, this platform censors publication of malware, worms, viruses, and other such software.

I’ll never personally use a publishing/hosting service platform that tells me, in advance, that they will censor my legal content.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by olaven »

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/

If I may, I would like to add my own Markblog to the list :-) It is basically a static site generator based on markdown files. (https://github.com/olaven/markblog)

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by dktoao »

diarrhea wrote: post #204
dktoao wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, in general, there are many, many "unit collisions" that can really only be exactly interpreted from context. I think it would be great if everyone started using bracket notation (or similar) for prefixes. E.g. [k]B [Mi]B This is the convention used in pqm.js and it works really well. this would go a long way toward units that can be accurately read by a computer.

But is the SI system ambiguous? I almost never have to think about prefix v unit, it is always quite clear. Of course, strange combinations can occur (MNm - Meganewtonmeter as an example perhaps), but even those are unambiguous on second thought. Collisions seem to be most prevalent in "IT" units or for improper SI usage. But maybe the latter is really the reason for the former in this case: if people separated SI an…

If you are strictly sticking to the SI system of units, you should be fine. However, some of us work in industries and countries (You know where) that don't fully embrace SI, and mixing other systems with SI is common.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by kickscondor »

bachmeier wrote: post #38
ordinaryradical wrote: post #34

Since HN seems to be on a blog-kick lately, I'll repost the idea that I'm still waiting for someone to build: A blogverse of some kind that allows for algorithmic discoverability & aggregation (ala Medium) without the bullshit/terrible UX. The real value proposition of Medium is that a well-made aggregator benefits readers and writers alike. Readers find more authors they like, writers find more audience. There are a…

What I want is a Yahoo-style directory for blogs. Blog owners can put their blog in exactly one category. Users can star the blogs they like, similar to GitHub, and identify the low quality click generators/marketing blogs. I personally find Medium to be a horrible way to find content. Maybe it works for new content, if that's what you're after.

I run a Yahoo-style directory for blogs and articles I find: https://href.cool/. I'd personally like to see more personal directories rather than big monolithic directories of everything - those tend to collect spam.
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