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Express application that converts files to HTML with pandoc and serves the results, with a dashboard. The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating. 1: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/39d9583395c190534...
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This used to be fairly common. Reddit is another site. A company I worked at.aroind the same time also had .xml, .rss, .atom. .xml would serve up the raw xml our middleware generated, which was normally "rendered" via xsl (what can I say to redeem myself for that?) server side. It was great for both debugging (you could browse the site in "xml mode") and to provide an API. I still like the url approach - being able t…
> xsl (what can I say to redeem myself for that?) Why? XSL is awesome even if a little arcane now. Time makes fools of us all.
It's doable. It's also a massive pain.
The big problem was that the easy way out is that your XML ends up being changed to be "XSL-friendly", which means a ton of concessions that effectively encodes knowledge of the expected presentation no matter how much you want to keep it largely semantic.
Small presentation changes far too often result in changes to the XML to accommodate weaknesses in XSL.
I still like the idea. But not the use of XSL to achieve it. Unfortunately, we don't have any great alternatives that aren't horrible in all kinds of different ways.
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To be fair, it's very clearly fronted on the Sign Up form, which has a prominent button in the top right corner. A dedicated Pricing page/section would be nice simply because people often look for it, but it's not like they're trying to be sneaky or use dark patterns.
Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.
Anyway, it seems that they fixed it because there is a Pricing link in the menu now. Well done.
Express application that converts files to HTML with pandoc and serves the results, with a dashboard. The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating. 1: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/39d9583395c190534...
Fascinating as in should have been added to .gitignore?
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Isn't that literally just a web server?
Only if the web server transparently converts non-HTML sources (Markdown, Word docs, Google docs, LaTeX, image galleries) into HTML on the fly.
> Files and folders whose name starts with an underscore do not become posts or pages. You can link to or embed them in posts. So you cannot link to "posts"? Only to files whose names starts with underscore?
You can specify URLs for specific posts/pages via tags in the post/page file & then link to those URLs directly on other pages.
Thanks for building this.
Also, my website is https://independentlypoor.com/
I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators
But for your target audience, it might be confusing to compare your service to those.
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How do you want to serve pages without an http[s] server ?
The next innovation I expect to see on HN is a service that, on a set schedule, gathers articles about a set of topics that you follow, prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal. This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sha…
Although it needs the context to really appreciate the funny.