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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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gitgud wrote: post #251
CydeWeys wrote: post #110

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 wh…

This is a hilarious nit-pick. In the context of an internet blog describing average page-size, it's completely obvious that mb == MB ... not millibars... There's an insane amount of abbreviations and acronyms that have multiple meanings in different contexts. How many Wikipedia pages have [disambiguation] here ?...

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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

Fiveplus wrote: post #260
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…

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.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by peter_d_sherman »

>"Blog platform Avg. page size

Medium ~4mb

Blogger ~1mb

Wordpress ~4mb

Ghost ~3mb

Bear ~5kb (yep)"

There is definitely something to be said with respect to how bloaty many blogging packages are these days...

Actually, come to think of it, that would be a great name for a new blogging service... call it "bloaty" or "bloatly" or something like that....

It could also refer to the fact that with most blogs, the signal to noise ratio of the words comprising the articles is similarly bloated, as well... so "bloatly" would be a great name! That'll be my next Y Combinator submission for summer 2020!

"Bloatly"!

I can picture my future company's Y Combinator interview:

YC Staff: "So what does your piece of software do?"

Us: "It's a blogging platform, the very first HAAS (Hot-Air-As-a-Service) platform out there... Great for politicians and salespeople! 1.21 Gigabytes of useless JavaScript per page... the Internet will end before you successfully download any page!"

YC: "So what do you call it?"

Us: "We call it Bloatly -- now give us our $150,000 check!"

(Kidding, obviously! )

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by Fiveplus »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cool, thanks for expanding on that man.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by earthboundkid »

edbaskerville wrote: post #250
Nursie wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been aware of these for around 20 years, I've not seen that nomenclature growing in popularity. It doesn't help that it just sounds silly to my ears.

Nail on the head. They're just weird, at least in the context of English phonetics. That's the reason I discourage their adoption. I'd much rather we just all agree that kilobyte means 2^10 bytes. Or find words that aren't weird. If I remember correctly, a big motivation for this change was the fact that disk manufacturers intentionally used base-10 definitions so they could advertise larger numbers for disk capacity…

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.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by manigandham »

gen220 wrote: post #77
bachmeier wrote: post #38

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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.

The success of search engines prompted Yahoo to ditch its original product (the curation and categorization of the web) in favor of its competitors automated (and thereby game-able) crawl-index-search approaches. Now, decades later, there seems to be a shared yearning for the curated web, perhaps in response to the low signal:noise ratio of search. Isn't it funny, how the world works in cycles? Curated search (domain…

Wikipedia doesn't struggle for funding. It just happens to be like many other organizations that eat up whatever funding they get regardless.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by manigandham »

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…

I'd advise just running Wordpress or Ghost. Even a small VPS is more than enough scale and you get a working blog out of the box with easy extensibility for the future. And you can still use a CDN in front.

People think a static site is enough without realizing SEO, RSS feeds, comments, etc, are all things you might need and would have to rebuild yourself.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by mbreese »

jedberg wrote: post #230
alexktz wrote: post #227

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Write on your phone, commit to git, have some CI build it and deploy. Simples :)

> Write on your phone, Ok that part's easy. > commit to git How? I've never seen a good git client for the phone > have some CI build it and deploy. Step one, draw a circle. Step two, draw the rest of the owl. :) While this might be a fun exercise, it's more involved than deploying some code to Lambda.

I don’t know... I have a Github actions workflow that on a commit, it builds a site (mkdocs) and upload it to a gh-pages branch for hosting on Github. You could also push the generated html to S3.

That coupled with Working Copy could be a pretty good mobile workflow.

For me, this was much easier than deploying Lambda code and managing How all of that worked together. Using Github Actions wasn’t much more than setting up a deploy script.

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