Oh hey look, another low/no setup Markdown based "blog platform" that uses Shitstrap and has a mysterious name and a .io domain.
Ugh. I wonder how many more of these we'll see before the year's end.
Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform
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#22Oh hey look, another low/no setup Markdown based "blog platform" that uses Shitstrap and has a mysterious name and a .io domain. Ugh. I wonder how many more of these we'll see before the year's end.
If people keep making them, clearly existing solutions aren't quite getting it right, otherwise no one would bother.
> and a .io domain
And that's just Github's domain... Furthermore, Google is currently treating .io as a generic TLD. Considering the exhaustion of .com and .net addresses, is it any surprise that people have adopted another one en masse?
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#23Oh hey look, another low/no setup Markdown based "blog platform" that uses Shitstrap and has a mysterious name and a .io domain. Ugh. I wonder how many more of these we'll see before the year's end.
If people keep making them, clearly existing solutions aren't quite getting it right, otherwise no one would bother. > and a .io domain And that's just Github's domain... Furthermore, Google is currently treating .io as a generic TLD. Considering the exhaustion of .com and .net addresses, is it any surprise that people have adopted another one en masse?
IT'S. BORING.
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#24Can I get mathematical equations support, say with MathJax?
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#25Can I get mathematical equations support, say with MathJax?
It's not built-in out of the box, so you gotta ask the developer about it. But you should be able to easily use it by adding the js files to your header.
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#26Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing m…
I switched to a static site generator from Posterous when it was acquired (and ultimately shut down), and I definitely do find myself writing more posts on the blog. Writing a post is as easy as creating a new markdown file, writing in it, then `middleman build`, `git commit -a` and `git push` (which I could definitely automate further).
Of course, I probably consider this workflow easier because as a developer I'm already perfectly comfortable with git, and with working with source files. I can just open a terminal and type `vim /path/to/blog/new-post.markdown` and start writing. I find Wordpress slow, fiddly and limiting by contrast.
I'm not uncomfortable making the extended inference that most who prefer markdown for posting are at least very computer-literate and quite possibly software developers. I tried to sell my wife (a writer) on markdown and she didn't get it at all.
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#27Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing m…
Oh look another great free tool and another senseless comment that tries to knock it for no reason. You're just writing over-generalized nonsense for the sake of it, most of which doesn't even make sense... > Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? What?
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#28Uninteresting: "Use my blog platform! It has the power of node!" Interesting: "I wrote something new in a way or with tools that I had not used before. Here's what worked, here's what didn't, and here's what I learned." Unfortunately, this is the former. I'd be interested in reading the latter if you wrote something up about your experience with this.
Sorry about that. There is only so much that I can write on a project page. It has to grab attention.
I wrote in detail about specter and what I learnt building it on my blog, if you care to read you can go on the link below.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most important one to me is not using PHP (THEshittiest programming language ever) and being built upon NodeJS. Also, look at my answer below about the security aspect of it.
I would rather use PHP over JavaScript. I know that puts me in a smallish subset of people here, but I really don't like JavaScript.
Smallish subset here perhaps but then HN is not representative of the wider programming community.
I for one think JavaScript is an utterly hideous language full of all kinds of gotchas and abortions and that the only reason it has any relevance is it got their first.
I will take PHP over JS (and Python over both).
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#30looks like a nice little project. how did it ever get built without some crowd funding though? :)
ha ha nice one. With lots of free time and nothing much to do I thought I might as well build something that people can use until ghost comes around.