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I don't know, was it? From the beginning everything on Medium seemed to be written by folks who styled themselves as "thought leaders," but clearly weren't
Thought leader is a synonym for empty suit. If someone uses that in a bio you can just move along, you won't miss anything.
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Thank you!. At the moment diff.blog only parses English blogs from the feed. So If your blog has mixed content you can still submit the blog. I have plan for supporting other langauges as well in future. Creating subdomains like de.diff.blog, ml.diff.blog, etc which only contains the blog posts in the respective languages should probably be good enough. The main difficulty is finding the initial set of blogs that are…
Hey, I blog in German for many years now and have my blog in a different open source planet. If you want some input about that language, shoot me a mail (it's in my HN profile). Looking at your site I'm noticing there seems to be no RSS feed? I think that would make a good addition. You could have one personalized feed and one global one, like Reddit does it. I'd also like to note that I was surprised about the githu…
Thanks! Will reach out to you once I start on this.
> Looking at your site I'm noticing there seems to be no RSS feed? I think that would make a good addition. You could have one personalized feed and one global one, like Reddit does it.
That sounds like a cool feature to have. I will add it to my todo list.
> I'd also like to note that I was surprised about the github login. My blog has no connection to Github at all, most blogs won't, so I'm not seeing how that could work for others when people suggest their blogs?
Yeah. I added GitHub login mainly to get the list of followers and organizations you follow on GitHub. Your account follows them automatically when you sign up on diff.blog. It also give me some idea on what kind of languages you use which I use a bit for showing user recommendations.
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So write HTML and push that directly to your webserver.. what do you want from the world haha Forgive me for suggesting the first thing that popped into mind, could you run the generator script locally and also push the /public dir which your server then serves directly?
> So write HTML and push that directly to your webserver. A much better option. Still have to deal with the de-facto boilerplate of every html file: head, body, header, footer. Which is why I built something that does it in the browser for me. > Forgive me for suggesting the first thing that popped into mind, could you run the generator script locally and also push the /public dir which your server then serves direct…
I find it fascinating that you'd go to all the trouble to build what essentially breaks down to a custom static site generator but you then balk at using an off the shelf one with a build script.
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Had you marked your article for distribution, i.e. behind the paywall? If so, then yes, they have a curation team that is manually reviewing articles for extra distribution across their network. As a publishing partner, I have a copy of their guidelines--mostly stuff that can be done at scale. And mostly what they are doing is trying to find the right topics to feature the article in. I'm wouldn't be surprised if the…
No, just a standard article. Unless that's the default then I wouldn't know. Didn't seem to be behind a paywall.
Folks looking for a Medium alternative, please checkout https://diff.blog . It's an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs I built an year back. It has been growing steadily since. The reason why I built this was to solve the problem of disoveralibilty of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which give…
As others have said, this is great! A simple but very useful idea and a great execution. Thank you for not making it an amalgamation of heavy javascript frameworks.
React or any frontend frameworks would have probably been an overkill (honestly, even jQuery was) in the case of diff.blog, since Django did most of the Job. If the frontend codebase becomes larger, I would probably rewrite them to make use of native Web Components. I still have not yet experimented with web components though.
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If the content is of any real value, I'd be more than happy to pay for it with money. 10 bucks? Sure, here you go. A much better option than getting emails such as "20 lessons I learned from my job interview" or whatever.
Everyone says they'd do that, but I find really hard to believe. I create rare, valuable information that saves people money and headaches. On a good month, 2% of my revenue will come from donations. Usually, it's 0%. At best, it pays for a meal and a beer. This website has 135k page views per month. If that's how much I get from teaching people how to navigate German bureaucracy, I doubt you'll make anything from yo…
I've been yelling about this for years, but please start & own your own blog. Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people. HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start ). Own your platform. Own your content. Own yo…
For me, Jekyll, Github Pages, and a couple lines of CSS were nothing[1], but there should be as little barrier to entry as possible if you have something to say
[0]: https://andrewtag.com (it's not self-promotion if it's someone else's blog)
[1]: https://amtunlimited.gihub.io (this is definitely self-promotion, feel free to ignore)
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> I DON'T want to do either of that. Add a file, push it and know everything has worked. That's precisely what Netlify offers you.
Netlify simply adds an abstraction layer over a task which I don't want to be performed __AT_ALL__. I don't care if I'm doing it myself or someone else is on a server somewhere on my behalf. It is utterly stupid to have all that to serve a static file.
https://caddyserver.com/docs/markdown
”Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy. Use it to serve your static site with compression, template evaluation, Markdown rendering, and more.”
Here’s a blog on doing this with the older version of Caddy:
https://blog.thomaspuppe.de/static-sites-from-markdown-with-...
In an ideal world, I would have that interface to write my markdown on the phone. It would encourage me to write more. I could start a draft of something when a thought occurs to me and finish it up later at home.
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What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js. b) Has built-in syntax highlighting for C#, SQL, PowerShell and Rust at a minimum. c) Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries. I played around with Hugo, but the themes were ugly and it was very weak at managing pictures associated with an entry instead of the entire site.
Some time ago I asked myself the same question. Ideally I wanted not so much a generator but rather something that is completely self-contained. Essentially add a markdown or html file, commit and move on. Surprisingly enough I couldn't find anything that does that so I ended up building one myself. Doesn't support syntax highlighting at the moment but I've considered looking into it. Perhaps I should open source it…
Just serve your markdown git repo using Caddy.
https://caddyserver.com/docs/markdown
”Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy. Use it to serve your static site with compression, template evaluation, Markdown rendering, and more.”
Here’s a blog on doing this with the older version of Caddy:
https://blog.thomaspuppe.de/static-sites-from-markdown-with-...
You get a lot of other “just works” goodness too.