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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by mark-r »

chrismorgan wrote: post #290
mark-r wrote: post #116

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Are you sure that "websites of today" use 16px or larger universally? HN appears to use 9pt Verdana, which I believe is equivalent to 12px on my Windows system if my math is correct. Georgia is a terribly underrated font. I'm sure it's heavily hinted to look good at small sizes, but even at large sizes it has an elegance that is lacking in e.g. Times Roman.

HN is not a website of today. It’s a website of 2007. Its visual style has not changed at all since then.

And yet I still like the way it looks. That should tell you something.

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Post by coopsmgoops »

MattGaiser wrote: post #39
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…

> plus a business model not reliant on ads Is anyone anywhere close to this?

Medium has a revenue sharing thing where a medium pro users fees are allocated to write depending on what the user reads. I don't know anyone who has medium pro though.

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Post by ubermonkey »

criddell wrote: post #30
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.

Bear is pretty dumb and limited. If it covers your use-case, great, but if you step outside of the narrow path at all, it fails.

I actually tried to use Bear as a MD-based publisher to my WP blog, and it just ran aground badly.

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Post by earthboundkid »

CydeWeys wrote: post #337
earthboundkid wrote: post #265

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Why should we use 2^10? Bits matter in the small—a machine with a 12-bit word and 1024 words of memory or whatever was popular in the ’70s—but at the scale of gigabytes, individual bits don’t matter anymore, so may as well just use decimal because that’s what our number system is based on. I don’t see any point besides retro nostalgia to use base 2 after you move out of the each bit counts space.

SI prefixes are fine for mass/block storage and network speeds, because there's no particular reason they would fall precisely into buckets of powers of 2. But for CPU cache and system/GPU memory in particular, and maybe even some flash memory, it does continue to make sense to use MiB and GiB, because of the particular way that memory itself is addressed and packaged. Memory very much does fall precisely along power…

Sure. I support the distinction of GiB for RAM and GB for everything else.

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Post by jedberg »

jlelse wrote: post #334
jedberg wrote: post #207

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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…

I've build something like this using Hugo as a SSG and a custom Micropub-backend that commits new content to a Git repo and pushes it to a Git hosting platform. That then triggers a CI build for the site generation and upload to the webserver as well as a CDN purge.

Awesome! Is your code available anywhere?

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Post by m11a »

jedberg wrote: post #262
Fiveplus wrote: post #260

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Quick Question: Why is self-hosted a thing that's highly desirable on HN?

Control. With self hosting I can control the code, what it does, the cost, where it stores data, how backups are made, etc. It’s always a trade off on control, and my comfort point is “on AWS”. For some people they want their own servers. Some people want to own the network block. It’s just what level of comfort you have with each type of control.

Isn't there a downside here?

What if your content doesn't have enough views / you get bored / life changes so can't afford server costs anymore / die. Your server will expire eventually, and there goes your content. web.archive.org might have some sites archived, but many blogs won't have been archived so their content is just gone forever.

I've self-hosted many platforms, and many have died, perhaps due to running costs or lack of need anymore. It's partially why I'd never self-host my email, for example.

You can't know the future, and if your content is gone, it's gone for all of your audience (or potential future audience). Perhaps an ideal solution is some kind of self-hosted platform that mirrors content into a forever-public external repository, and hence preserves it, even if your hosting ceases to exist.

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Post by revicon »

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

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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'm going to go start a new shoe company named Puma. Hey, it's a common animal name, no problem.

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Post by rhezab »

sivakon wrote: post #257
rhezab wrote: post #71

I wish there was something like this for math blogs. I've tried Jekyll with MathJax but it looks kind of ugly. Any suggestions anyone?

You can visit https://upmath.me/ and on the preview side, choose `md`. You can get latex equation as SVG URL hosted on s2cms.ru CDN. It's pretty fast and supports any website that supports markdown+images without the need for MathJax or Katex. Example post here https://katr.bearblog.dev/latex/

Will give it a try, thanks for the example post!

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Post by Can_Not »

manigandham wrote: post #267
jitl wrote: post #2

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

There's about a million different note-taking apps now (and they're about 95% the same).

And zero of them are better than github's gist with dark mode and proper markdown support.

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Post by spurgu »

m11a wrote: post #346
jedberg wrote: post #262

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Control. With self hosting I can control the code, what it does, the cost, where it stores data, how backups are made, etc. It’s always a trade off on control, and my comfort point is “on AWS”. For some people they want their own servers. Some people want to own the network block. It’s just what level of comfort you have with each type of control.

Isn't there a downside here? What if your content doesn't have enough views / you get bored / life changes so can't afford server costs anymore / die. Your server will expire eventually, and there goes your content. web.archive.org might have some sites archived, but many blogs won't have been archived so their content is just gone forever. I've self-hosted many platforms, and many have died, perhaps due to running c…

Yeah. There's a wordpress.com blog I frequently go back to and reference and the author passed away in 2014. Thanks to it being hosted on wordpress.com it will stay up there for the foreseeable future. Had it been relying on monthly payments for hosting and yearly payments for the domain it would probably have been down already by the time I realized he was no longer with us (some three months after the fact). And at that point, not all content would've probably been in archive.org and thus lost forever.

I also have a bunch of old blogs that I've just given up on at some point and now they're gone forever.

Your last point is kind of what archive.org's Wayback Machine does. Haven't checked whether they have an API where you can submit URL's you publish* or if you'd have to submit new posts manually, but this could be a decent solution. It wouldn't cover non-tech people though.

*) I just now quickly browsed through their API doc but couldn't find anything clear, other than uploading random files

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