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Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

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Post by kodablah »

Nice! I like these small self-contained Go projects with their own web server (thinking about adding a Tor front and changing go-sqlite3 to an encrypted version for easy, safe at-home use). Easy, self-hosted websites is how the true decentralized web will come about (at least while we wait for the tech to share resources catches up).

If I could make one request, refactor the code a bit so that I could import it as a lib and use it on my own configured Go HTTP server. All that code in the main package is not very reusable if, say, I wanted to serve this as a net/http.Handler in a separate path.

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

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Post by SiVal »

kickscondor wrote: post #14

Related: * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://tgr.am/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/

Yes, but on first glance (without a lot of digging) at the links here, only Pastery seems to be open source (ix.io says it will be...someday), and Pastery (as nice as it is--thanks for that link) is for a different purpose (exchange of code snippets).

Rwtxt looks like a nice, simple, markdown-based, easily self-hostable, open-source, personal notes wiki. Nice work! If there are others that more or less match this description (self-hosted, open-source, private notes repository), I'd be interested.

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

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Post by ScarZy »

This is pretty awesome! Nice and clean, and a simple responsive WebUI.

I was thinking about doing something similar to this recently, but with different names:

Captain's Log and Captains Blog

You'd toggle Captain's Blog, which would forward it on to a configured static page generator and display it for you.

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

#24

Post by Prefinem »

SiVal wrote: post #22
kickscondor wrote: post #14

Related: * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://tgr.am/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/

Yes, but on first glance (without a lot of digging) at the links here, only Pastery seems to be open source (ix.io says it will be...someday), and Pastery (as nice as it is--thanks for that link) is for a different purpose (exchange of code snippets). Rwtxt looks like a nice, simple, markdown-based, easily self-hostable, open-source, personal notes wiki. Nice work! If there are others that more or less match this des…

Shameless plug, I made one that uses an AWS Lambda and S3 and encrypts everything before it gets sent over the wire. You can view a live version of it here (https://todos.md/) or view the source here (https://github.com/Prefinem/TODOS.md)

EDIT: grammar hurts

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

#25

Post by KirinDave »

vinc wrote: post #20
KirinDave wrote: post #15

How is this different from something like C2?

Have you been to C2 recently? It's now a web app that load only if you have JavaScript activated. Pretty sad. At least this one works well on text browsers, and pages load fast without the need for a spinner.

I was an actual admin for C2 once. I'm talking about the original software design.

Yeah, it's archived now. But it's essentially the same software but doesn't... even credit the concept of wikis in any way? It seems quite bad to not credit wikis in any way here.

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

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Post by SiVal »

Prefinem wrote: post #24
SiVal wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but on first glance (without a lot of digging) at the links here, only Pastery seems to be open source (ix.io says it will be...someday), and Pastery (as nice as it is--thanks for that link) is for a different purpose (exchange of code snippets). Rwtxt looks like a nice, simple, markdown-based, easily self-hostable, open-source, personal notes wiki. Nice work! If there are others that more or less match this des…

Shameless plug, I made one that uses an AWS Lambda and S3 and encrypts everything before it gets sent over the wire. You can view a live version of it here ( https://todos.md/ ) or view the source here ( https://github.com/Prefinem/TODOS.md ) EDIT: grammar hurts

"Shameless"? So you shamelessly help me, and I'll shamelessly thank you. (It looks interesting, too.)

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

#27

Post by Prefinem »

SiVal wrote: post #26
Prefinem wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shameless plug, I made one that uses an AWS Lambda and S3 and encrypts everything before it gets sent over the wire. You can view a live version of it here ( https://todos.md/ ) or view the source here ( https://github.com/Prefinem/TODOS.md ) EDIT: grammar hurts

"Shameless"? So you shamelessly help me, and I'll shamelessly thank you. (It looks interesting, too.)

Thanks. It's been through a few revisions and really needs to be reworked for mobile. If you have any input, I would be more than willing to hear it.

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

#28

Post by jktzes »

I was wondering how to save text without sign-up and then realized that the url slug generated from the first line is the "login". Although no password implies no authentication. I can't help smiling seeing the slug becomes a unique id when I put "test" at the first line. I smiled even wider when I visited the "test" page. This is some interesting shit!

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

#29

Post by disqard »

This is beautiful. Thank you for making and sharing!

My own setup is a NextCloud-storage directory hierarchy where I write notes using MDWiki [1]. This lets me continue recording my thoughts even when I'm offline.

[1] https://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md

Re: Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

#30

Post by xte »

Hey I'm a HUMAN, not a cow to be milked by someone.

I do write text, our information is mostly textual. But I need it manageable, organize with file taxonomy, structure taxonomy and full-text/fuzzy search. Something like org-mode. Something that I can post on the web if I like, but certainly not such a limited notebook.

Sorry, IMVHO many create applications just to write them, not to really use them nor to reason about a task they want to solve/automatize efficiently.

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