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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by Alacart »

cx201 wrote: post #41

Looks really polished and I love the minimalist design. One thing I've been wondering that a lot of web platforms offer: how do you allow users to bring their custom domain with TLS? What's the tech behind that and how does the process work?

You can do this a variety of ways, most of which boil down to automating a reverse proxy server and generating acme certs. My favorite is Caddy server if you want to build and manage it yourself.

Things get trickier if you want to handle this well for globally distributed servers, since you'll need to have a cluster of reverse proxies near or colocated to your app servers. That needs an anycast IP address to handle A records for apex domains, and usually you want them coordinating to share certs, cache, etc. efficiently. In that situation I'd recommend reaching for a paid service, since there can be a lot to build and maintain.

Source: I built approximated.app, which is a service that does all of that for you.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by mypalmike »

cx201 wrote: post #41

Looks really polished and I love the minimalist design. One thing I've been wondering that a lot of web platforms offer: how do you allow users to bring their custom domain with TLS? What's the tech behind that and how does the process work?

Whatever terminates the connection (e.g. nginx, haproxy, apache) needs to be configured for each supported domain. As a platform this would mean having code to modify and reload the config and put certs in place on behalf of users.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by gkbrk »

roshansingh wrote: post #46

Looks great. Please increase the font size to 16px or at least 15px. It is very difficult to read smaller texts which has become the norm these days.

If this is a common complaint that you have, why not just increase the font size and pick fonts you like in the browser settings? The settings are there for a reason.

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Post by they4kman »

Does mataroa, or a similar platform, offer syntax highlighting?

I'm on month 80 avoiding setting up a blog to capture my occasional thoughts and frequent side project adventures – mostly because I'd rather fiddle with the side projects than set aside time spinning up some blog platform (which often begins with promising I'll use asciidoc, and ends in frustration trying to render asciidoc _juuuuust_ right). I would love to have a dead-simple interface (for writing and reading) to collect words. But since most of those words will be about code, a lack of syntax highlighting will take residence in my mind.

(Tangentially related: I _love_ reader mode, because I like to read an article or two while rocking my baby to sleep, and reader mode offers dark mode, even on websites in stunning retina-burn white. The only downside of reader mode is how it kills syntax highlighting.)

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by sirodoht »

they4kman wrote: post #55

Does mataroa, or a similar platform, offer syntax highlighting? I'm on month 80 avoiding setting up a blog to capture my occasional thoughts and frequent side project adventures – mostly because I'd rather fiddle with the side projects than set aside time spinning up some blog platform (which often begins with promising I'll use asciidoc, and ends in frustration trying to render asciidoc _juuuuust_ right). I would lo…

Mataroa offers syntax highlighting. Example: https://nutcroft.com/blog/building-mataroa-blog/

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Post by swayvil »

egberts1 wrote: post #36
swayvil wrote: post #31

I do a minimal thing too. A css, a bit of php, a markdown-to-html converter. Content in markdown files. Directories for structure. Pig-ignorant and unbreakable.

Same, except mine is JS-free.

My markdown converter is php. Parsedown

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by extra88 »

xinsight wrote: post #26

Is there a reason reader mode doesn’t work on mobile Safari? (Pinch zooming and horizontal scrolling is painful.)

Mobile Safari's reader mode works for me on posts. It doesn't work on home pages but I don't expect it to; home pages aren't wrapped in elements, it's not semantically appropriate, but posts are.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by throwmeariver1 »

chubot wrote: post #44

I would like to try writing a post before signing up, or at least see what the import/export looks like I want to see if source code snippets, SVG, LaTeX, etc. works Same issue with bearblog.dev. They show you example rendered posts but not the example source

Yeah, sadly the only demo sites you see anymore are mostly for b2b services.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by extra88 »

thisistheend123 wrote: post #54

I see nothing here that is minimalistic or different. First of all, having a dark mode by default is not minimalistic. Edit: wow, downvotes without any explanation. You guys must be having a lot.

It's not dark mode by default. The text color is initially undefined and the background-color transparent. If the user's device is set to prefer dark mode, color and background color are set to be white text on a dark background.

It would be good if it was possible for a reader to choose to use the opposite of their device setting but that would would less minimal (needs a UI, JavaScript, and client-side storage of the setting).

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