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Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
- jitl 6y ago“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/ https://bear.app/
- binaryorganic 6y agoThis is a great, great app. I use it and love it.
- dan_can_code 6y agoI agree, bear is great. I miss it - I no longer have an iPhone and am Windows dependent :-(. I have made the best use of OneNote as I can - but the ease of categorisation of thoughts within the bear app will always be the best imo.
- rgrs 6y agoTry Joplin. As a heavy user of markdown for notes, i wanted something cross-platform across OSes and devices. Joplin fits my requirements perfectly.
- apozem 6y agoI want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.
- PascLeRasc 6y agoI'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.
- 1f60c 6y agoNotion is amazing, and they recently removed the cap on the amount of "blocks" you're allowed to use on the free plan[0]. No affiliation, just a happy customer. :-) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786
- chrisweekly 6y agoAgreed, Notion is awesome. I have even stronger feelings about Roam though. Notion is "better" than just abt anything else like it, whereas Roam is different -- there is nothing else like it.
- 1f60c 6y agoRoam as in https://roamresearch.com/ https://roamresearch.com/?
- chrisweekly 6y agoYes!
- michaelmrose 6y agoWhat about org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server
- chrisweekly 6y agoMight be nice for Emacs / orgmode users?
- johntash 6y agoI wish Notion had a self-hosted version. I store a lot of things in Joplin (previously Evernote) that I'm just not comfortable having on 3rd party servers :(
- uxamanda 6y agoJoplin is cool because you can add your own css to customize the desktop app. I realize not every is interested in doing that, but I’ve been an advocate once I tweaked the styles to my liking [0]. Agree with you that the mobile app styles are very rough, but the community is very active and open to suggestions / improvements [1]. [0] https://github.com/amandamcg/joplin-theme https://github.com/amandamcg/joplin-theme [1] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/ https://discourse.joplinapp.org/
- dan_can_code 6y agoJoplin looks really interesting - thank you for the recommendation!
- arvinsim 6y agoTry out Notion. They recently changed their free plan to have unlimited blocks.
- dan_can_code 6y agoI have given them a go - but I had some privacy concerns. I may look into this again, thank you.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoI was trying to play on the word "bare". Yeah, I realised this a bit too late
- mark-r 6y agoI have to say I like the character based logo. Inventive use of Unicode I'm guessing.
- wodenokoto 6y agoIt’s a fairly well known koamoji. Kaomoji is the horizontal counterpart to smileys and they can get very creative. If you set your iPhone to Japanese keyboard it comes with hundreds of these build in ︎('ω'︎ )
- pedrogpimenta 6y agoBold to assume this person has an iPhone :)
- kparaju 6y agoI copy paste them :) http://japaneseemoticons.me/all-japanese-emoticons/ http://japaneseemoticons.me/all-japanese-emoticons/
- jklinger410 6y agoApple users seem to think everyone uses Apple products.
- enz 6y agoPro tip for iPhone users: juste type かおもじ (kaomoji) and slide the suggestion bar: you have all the kaomojis you want.
- arvinsim 6y agoI was actually wondering why the note taking app was named "Bear". Maybe they thought the same way as you do :)
- criddell 6y agoThat's what I thought this was - a bit of automation to publish right from the Bear app.
- ubermonkey 6y agoBear is pretty dumb and limited. If it covers your use-case, great, but if you step outside of the narrow path at all, it fails. I actually tried to use Bear as a MD-based publisher to my WP blog, and it just ran aground badly.
- karlding 6y agoIt's also a tool that helps generate a JSON compilation database [0] for Clang Tooling. [0] https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear
- mmm_grayons 6y agoThanks for linking that. I've been using the compile commands for autocompletion in vim, so it's nice to know I'm not tied to cmake for that.
- shrutipathak 6y agoDitto. I thought this is a new product by bear. Got me excited for a bit. I wonder if trademark would kick in later for this.
- mosselman 6y agoWhat a world we live in that we have to worry about trademark issues for the name of one of the most common animal names a child could think of.
- bignell 6y agoI mean, if they wanted to reserve the use of this common animal name across all industries, that’d be ridiculous, but it would seem pretty reasonable to worry about confusion between a cloud notes app and a cloud blog app. Certainly easier to think about it now than if this service takes off.
- beshrkayali 6y agoThese are two different products. Blogging != note taking. And it doesn't seem like there's malicious intent. You can't use a generic name and expect others not to come up with the same idea.
- bignell 6y agoBlogging !== note-taking, but you could definitely make the argument that a blog post is semantically a public note. Apple, Fox, Shell, Target...any of these generic words ring a bell? I’m sure there was no malicious intent, and it’s very possible that these two products will coexist without any further issue. But as evidenced in this very thread there is the potential for confusion, which is the whole point of trademarks, and the reason why I’d have an easier time incorporating “Apple Surfboards“ than I would “Apple Keyboards”.
- mosselman 6y ago
- manigandham 6y agoThere's about a million different note-taking apps now (and they're about 95% the same).
- Can_Not 6y agoAnd zero of them are better than github's gist with dark mode and proper markdown support.
- st1ck 6y agoIs it known among non mac/ios users? I've never heard of it before. Not to mention that by using such a generic name you're just begging for collisions.
- thex10 6y agoI see the page and example blog, but where's the platform?
- lazyload 6y agoI appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.
- jamil7 6y agoI think I'd second this, adding some basic improvements to the typesetting would help a lot and wouldn't cost anything WRT performance.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoI'm thinking of adding a few small ways the user can adjust it. Maybe a dropdown of classless css frameworks to choose from would be good
- qznc 6y agoBut then there can be a smaller solution and this one is not the minimal one anymore.
- Reedx 6y agoComing soon, the http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ equivalent.
- chadlavi 6y agoIt's so hard to take a site with serif fonts seriously. It would be worth the 8th css declaration if the author added `font-family: sans-serif;`.
- chrismorgan 6y agoI find that a curious attitude; I rather appreciate when I come across a site that uses a serif font. Sans-serifs are so terribly overused.
- rammy1234 6y agoIs this different from the note taking app "Bear"
- notadog 6y agoYes. The only similarity is their names.
- rammy1234 6y agoWhy have the same name that is linked with a well known app. 1. it confuses the user 2. No unique branding as this question is going to crop up again and again. Why the author wants to compete with this name ? Just curious
- JadeNB 6y agoCompetition was not intended: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23312634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23312634 .
- aloisdg 6y agoIs it open source? Could I self hosted it?
- HermanMartinus 6y agoYou can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog
- pidg 6y agoIf you want something similar that you can self-host, try Yellow by Datenstrom: https://datenstrom.se/yellow/ https://datenstrom.se/yellow/
- katktv 6y agoSo can I self-host this? The comparisons make no sense if I can't self-host the thing.
- notadog 6y agoFrom the creator elsewhere in the comments: > You can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog
- Gooblebrai 6y agoLooking at the source code, you could self host it making some changes in the code.
- jamil7 6y agoCool project! I think you'd do well to expand the example blog with more entries and content.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoThanks. Will do
- robjan 6y agoGood idea but not sure if I would call it a blog hosting platform. My understanding is that it hosts a single parsed markdown file on a subdomain of my choosing.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoYou can write as many posts as you want in markdown, check out the example blog herman.bearblog.dev to see what I mean
- varlogix 6y agoLove the "early internet" feel of it, and of course the speed. The domain name could be improved, considering that it will be part of every hosted blog. Something more concise, or rolls off the tongue easier.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoI tried to get a better domain. I tried so hard. tiny.blog, bare.blog, bear.blog, petite.blog, smol.site, etc, etc.... Small domains are competitive if you're on a shoestring budget :P
- boomlinde 6y agoI scored text.garden a while ago which in retrospect would have been great for something like this.
- baruchel 6y agoWouldn't twtxt be a better candidate as the most minimal blogging platform? https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- HermanMartinus 6y agoThis is pretty rad
- sequoia 6y agoUsed this years ago for twitter https://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ https://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ It was amazing... everyone thinks you're working with the terminal open ;)
- awake 6y agoI don’t understand the desire to have no stylesheets. The default styling on the web is not a great example of design or usability.
- Narishma 6y agoBut it has one...
- eterm 6y agoI've not worked out when firefox reader view is visible and when it isn't, but for this blog it isn't, which is a shame because I find the chosen font unreadable.
- jiveturkey 6y agoyup, this is not a well done blogging platform. simple != simplistic. "most minimal" != "minimum". the 'just read' chrome/edge extension does work, and vastly improves readability of the produced html.
- sunnylemon 6y agoI actually just wrote a blog post about this topic: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics In a nutshell, the paragraphs (<p> tags) do not contain enough text to contribute to the readability score. Reader view heuristics rewards paragraphs of at least 140 characters.
- eterm 6y agoThanks, that's really interesting.
- IAmNotAFix 6y agohttps://txti.es/ https://txti.es/ comes to mind, but I guess its lack of account system makes it not very blog-friendly.
- SquareWheel 6y agoThe comparisons are all to large content management systems. However this seems like a better fit for static site generators. Would it be better to compare to Jekyll, Hugo, etc?
- HermanMartinus 6y agoSure, serving static files will always be the fastest, but this is for people looking for a service like Medium, or Blogger, where there's no need to handle anything locally.
- SquareWheel 6y agoI see, thanks. I guess in my mind I was thinking of Wordpress as .org, not .com.
- masukomi 6y agoto be clear, you don't _need_ to do anything locally. It's possible to use static blogs without touching your site and there are lots of competing tools out there that will give you a web front end to your static blog. For example. I use Hugo, with Forestry.io and don't have to touch my filesystem (or even my personal computer) to blog. I just go to a web page like all the CMS blogs. I'm self-hosting rather than using something like netifly so the setup was a bit more geeky BUT it's totally doable and doesn't have to be tooo geeky.
- ordinaryradical 6y agoSince HN seems to be on a blog-kick lately, I'll repost the idea that I'm still waiting for someone to build: A blogverse of some kind that allows for algorithmic discoverability & aggregation (ala Medium) without the bullshit/terrible UX. The real value proposition of Medium is that a well-made aggregator benefits readers and writers alike. Readers find more authors they like, writers find more audience. There are also network effects with shared comment logins, inter-blog citations, etc. I really think a blogging renaissance is waiting to happen. These ingredients plus a business model not reliant on ads, massive js overhead, and other nonsense could jumpstart it.
- woozymans 6y agoI just hacked together a little blog directory recently - woozymans.com.
- bachmeier 6y agoWhat 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.
- gen220 6y agoThe 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 (domains chosen by a set of humans with no financial conflicts of interests, with some grokkable categorization and full-text search) might be the nirvana we're searching for. I think the GP has a point, that the need for a sustaining business model tends to strongly conflict with this equilibrium. Wikipedia has sort of evolved to partially fill this niche, but it periodically struggles with funding. I agree there's not a similar filling for blogs, yet: maybe GitHub will evolve there, but it will face the same pressure of other platforms owned by public for-profit companies.
- busymom0 6y agoBe careful, you might be running into trademark violations with the popular note-taking app Bear. Seems like both fall in similar genres.
- djsumdog 6y agoI don't think you can trademark a generic work like "Bear" .. so long as the author isn't using the logos from that app or conflating its brand, it should be fine (IANAL)
- freehunter 6y agoYou absolutely can trademark a generic word for specific circumstances. That’s why I can’t set up a computer shop called Apple. It was also the subject of many lawsuits between Apple Computers and Apple Records.
- azhenley 6y agoLanding page is straight to the point, describes what is different about Bear, and links to an example blog. Great! The only question I still have is what is the editor like?
- HermanMartinus 6y agoI've added it to my notes, thanks. Maybe a full demo interface would be a good idea
- munificent 6y agoWhat are the economics of this? Presumably you are paying web hosting fees out of pocket. If this is successful, what's the plan for when you no longer want to be that charitable?
- saagarjha 6y agoI wonder if the hosting fees might be negligible…
- HermanMartinus 6y agoHosting fees are pretty negligible. If it becomes a burden, then I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Thing is, if enough people are using this to make me have to upgrade my hosting, that's a great problem to have.
- StavrosK 6y agoI love that this exists, I wish I'd thought of it first, and I like you for making it. I think you should improve the default stylesheet a bit, I like http://matejlatin.github.io/Gutenberg/ http://matejlatin.github.io/Gutenberg/.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoOoh, this looks neat
- Antecedent 6y agoChange the font from Garamond and that will eliminate 50% of the style complaints. I’ve always found Garamond text online hard on my eyes.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoNoted :)
- torgoguys 6y agoThis is cool! As mentioned in other replies--some small styling tweaks for readability would be useful and would literally only cost bytes (on the order of the x-clacks-overhead on the page...) If you're focusing on an extremely small page size, I'd prefer an external static, cached stylesheet than inlining all styling on every page load. That and a less complicated email obfuscator. :-)
- HermanMartinus 6y agoThanks for the awesome feedback. Yeah, I've come to realise that I'm the only person partial to Garamond ;) I've turned off the email obfuscator (courtesy of cloudflare), and will be doing a bunch of styling improvements over the next week.
- torgoguys 6y agoNah, I actually like the Garamond. I was referring more to adding a bit more line-height as mentioned in the (then) top comment.
- chrismorgan 6y agoHeads up: it doesn’t have no JavaScript at present, because Cloudflare’s email protection system is in place. (I hate that thing. It mangles non-email addresses all the time if they look even vaguely like an email address, e.g. a package with version number “foo@1.2.3”. Penalising users that disable JavaScript.) https://herman.bearblog.dev/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/ contains a “Get in touch” mailto: link that gets ruined, and the following script is added: <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script>
- HermanMartinus 6y agoAh shit. Turning it off. Thanks for the heads up
- Tempest1981 6y agoSafari on iOS 13.4 crashed loading https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-gods-of-toil/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-gods-of-toil/ Not blaming bearblog, but FYI
- snazz 6y agoAs a site owner, forcing non-JS users to click through a CAPTCHA is worth it since I get zero spam as a result. It might not be appropriate here, but it's appropriate for most personal websites.
- chrismorgan 6y agoMy email address, me@chrismorgan.info, has been widely promulgated for many years. I get about five spam messages a day, and occasionally 10–15 a day for a week or two. I average around one false negative per month, and have had two false positives in the last three years (and neither mattered—in fact I kinda agreed with the spam filter’s judgement in both cases). My email is with Fastmail, so I know that no emails are mysteriously disappearing (which seems to happen with providers like Gmail)—either the server rejects the email (so the sender will be notified), or it ends up in my mailboxes somewhere. So my own experience is that sharing your email address publicly is harmless and useful.
- keb_ 6y agoFor other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/ https://distbin.com/
- lazyjones 6y agoI'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
- mercacona 6y agoNot a blog, but: https://itty.bitty.site/edit https://itty.bitty.site/edit You can get a QR with your text too :-)
- crocodiletears 6y agoThis has been done, iirc. I think it was HN where I saw it a couple years back. I couldn't find it today if I wanted to, but it's definitely been done.
- pmachinery 6y agoNot sure if it's what you mean, but: (hashify) 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197 (shortly) 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696127
- lazyjones 6y agoYes, that's what I mean. But only Hashify still exists apparently...
- rhezab 6y agoI wish there was something like this for math blogs. I've tried Jekyll with MathJax but it looks kind of ugly. Any suggestions anyone?
- xiaodai 6y agocodementor.io and coding.blog
- sivakon 6y agoYou can visit https://upmath.me/ https://upmath.me/ and on the preview side, choose `md`. You can get latex equation as SVG URL hosted on s2cms.ru CDN. It's pretty fast and supports any website that supports markdown+images without the need for MathJax or Katex. Example post here https://katr.bearblog.dev/latex/ https://katr.bearblog.dev/latex/
- rhezab 6y agoWill give it a try, thanks for the example post!
- pvsukale3 6y agoDoes anyone know a blogging platform that allows you to export your content as a standalone static site and or markdown/csv?
- detaro 6y agomicro.blog
- robotmay 6y agoI like it. I actually built my own platform last year in a similar vein (https://senryu.pub https://senryu.pub) but made a few different trade-offs; I allowed myself a couple of fonts (which make up most of the page size), but I can very much appreciate going even further towards minimalism. Mine's a slow-burn project that I go back to every now and then and just add small daft features just for myself, as nobody else uses the bloody thing (probably because I put a paywall on it to stop spam). Poem formatting? Absolutely. I'm all for more platforms like this existing, I'd love a return to a legible, lightweight internet.
- mcguire 6y ago"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue "Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to bearblog.dev because this website requires a secure connection." ???
- AnonC 6y agoWhat are the limits on number of posts, post size, images...? What is it going to be priced at? Will there continue to be a free tier if/when it becomes paid? Sorry, I can’t try any platform that doesn’t answer questions about its future. I hope you’d provide more details on the homepage.
- meerita 6y agoI am glad that people are creating these services, but I always see a problem with this: what happens if the developer can no longer maintain the service or does not scale economically. All the blogs will end up being lost. Unless the developer is a philanthropist who plans to keep this up to the end of the day, I see these services as ideal for very specific things, not as your new home.
- dunefox 6y agoI need something simple like this but with syntax highlighting, images and Latex support with the option to host it myself.
- XCSme 6y agoI noticed someone asked about self-hosting: I already had a PHP site so I wanted an easy way to integrate a blog in my site. I ended up creating a micro-blogging library[0], which just renders markdown as blog posts. The advantage is that there is no build step, you only write markdown files (VSCode has live-preview by default for markdown) and you have easy versioning as markdown is just text. [0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
- CydeWeys 6y agoSmall 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 whether you're using binary prefixes vs SI prefixes, e.g. kB (10^3 bytes) vs kiB (2^10 bytes). That doesn't matter as much because the error is small for these lower values, but the casing errors definitely do matter. "mb" means millibars to me, not Megabytes!
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- diarrhea 6y ago"mb" is not millibar; "mbar" is.
- snazz 6y agoMaybe not officially, but in practice that's how it's used: The unit's official symbol is bar; the earlier symbol b is now deprecated and conflicts with the use of b denoting the unit barn, but it is still encountered, especially as mb (rather than the proper mbar) to denote the millibar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit)
- dktoao 6y agoYeah, in general, there are many, many "unit collisions" that can really only be exactly interpreted from context. I think it would be great if everyone started using bracket notation (or similar) for prefixes. E.g. [k]B [Mi]B This is the convention used in pqm.js and it works really well. this would go a long way toward units that can be accurately read by a computer.
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- filtercoffee37 6y agoLike the idea here, but think it would be more useful and exciting to have a better readable format.
- ravenstine 6y agoThat landing page is beautiful.
- fevangelou 6y agoUnless network speeds are reversing to the modem age, browsers switching to Trident/Gecko and PCs to single core CPUs exclusively, this is 100% hipsterism. As if using scripts or CSS is solely a choice of the CMS... Get real.
- qwerty456127 6y agoYou probably don't know how many people still use slow, expensive and limited (often every part extreme) connections and old CPUs. And even on a Core i7 with a 100 Mbit/s channel many websites still feel slow.
- fevangelou 6y agoPerhaps in rural areas in Africa and Asia. But these areas are plagued by poverty either way. Reading John Doe's blog on a 5KB web page is probably their last concern... :)
- MH15 6y agoThere are plenty of people in the developed US who have unreliable and slow internet. Consumers benefit from lightweight products. This is not really difficult to understand.
- Ndymium 6y agoNice to see these minimal sites. I also tried to make my own blog as minimal in used bandwidth as possible without sacrificing my features. A full page load with all resources is around 22 kB. Just a note, there seems to be an errant </div> at the end of the generated HTML.
- JonAtkinson 6y agoThis is wonderful. I’m thinking of doing something similar. Please could you email me? Detail in my profile.
- themarkers 6y agocan we do it by nocss ;D
- mraza007 6y agoHey a quick question Do you think can I host it myself. I really like the platform and can this support google analytics.
- agentdrtran 6y agoThe example project page is super hard to parse
- brainzap 6y agoDoes it have RSS?
- millette 6y agohttps://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/issues/2 https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/issues/2
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- 6510 6y agoI sign up but no email was send. The css should either leave the default colors alone or set both the background and font color. The source of this page contains much more cruft in meta tags and <!-- Microdata --> than actual content. https://herman.bearblog.dev/markdown-test/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/markdown-test/
- snazz 6y agoThe only problem I have with that page is that the meta description contains too much content. Otherwise, the source is very clear.
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- PatrolX 6y agoI like the lighthouse numbers a lot: https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1265374476100947971 https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1265374476100947971 Performance: 100
- dylanz 6y agoThis is great. Is there a way to export your data? This would be the only thing stopping me from using the service.
- marvinblum 6y agoReally cool! I like the idea to use a note taking/writing tool as a headless CMS and thought of this for Emvi [1] too. We provide access to everything through our API already... You can see usage of that here [2] and on GitHub [3]. The loading times of on Bear Blog seem a bit too high? Where does Medium for example take 16s to load? [1] https://emvi.com/ https://emvi.com/ [2] https://wiki.sts.wtf/ https://wiki.sts.wtf/ [3] https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki
- ehsankia 6y agoIs anyone going to mention how it says Medium takes 16s to load on average? That can't be right?
- embit 6y agoI use even a shorter version on my site, a cross between pastebin and ascii blog [0] [0] https://embit.ca/scratch https://embit.ca/scratch
- caiobegotti 6y agoAdvogato feelings here.
- jedberg 6y agoThings 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 anywhere, and can also make minor corrections to existing posts while on the go. * The CMS can be a frontend to git, but git is hard to use on mobile, so I don't want the CMS to just be git. If anyone knows of something that meets these requirements I'd be super grateful!
- j1elo 6y agoMaybe a static blog (e.g. Hugo), hosted on Netlify and making use of their netlify-cms package?
- jedberg 6y agoNetlify is awesome and I love their service, but it's not self hosted. In particular you have to pay lots of money to get logs.
- j1elo 6y agoI wonder if you can self-host the netlify-cms thing, though. That might be just what you wanted.
- jedberg 6y agoFrom what I can tell from reading the docs on netlify-cms, it only works if you use Netlify as your CDN. I could very well be wrong though.
- davish 6y agoNetlify CMS uses the GitHub (or bitbucket, etc) API to modify your repository with the new/updated content. You can self-host the entire system, or have netlify handle the GitHub auth while you self host your website.
- 627467 6y agoI love that bear looks as good (if not better) on by blackberry passport (Sq display) as on my galaxy S9
- sneak 6y agoNote to security researchers: per the TOS, this platform censors publication of malware, worms, viruses, and other such software. I’ll never personally use a publishing/hosting service platform that tells me, in advance, that they will censor my legal content.
- mrleinad 6y agoAdd an option to use a black background, and it's perfect.
- Groxx 6y agoHrm. I'm getting a certificate error when I click on the example site, on firefox dev (up to date within the past couple days at worst): https://herman.bearblog.dev/ Peer’s Certificate issuer is not recognized. HTTP Strict Transport Security: true HTTP Public Key Pinning: false Certificate chain: ... skipped ... Interestingly, this one works (from browsing github issues): https://hyprtxt.bearblog.dev/ https://hyprtxt.bearblog.dev/ I'd be happy to paste the whole thing somewhere, I'm just avoiding large blobs here.
- clircle 6y agoAny R blogdown writers here? I started using it a few weeks ago and love it.
- bgdkbtv 6y agoSo glad minimal websites are becoming more popular! Great idea. https://catfish.dev/catfish-developer.html https://catfish.dev/catfish-developer.html also follows that ideology
- fokker 6y agoLove it! Also, I think it'd be more impressive to be consistent with your units when comparing page sizes e.g: 4mb 1mb 4mb 3mb 0.005mb
- hybridbanner 6y agoWondering how people feel about analytics on small sites such as these? Including a Google Analytics tag seems to go against the ethos of such a site, but a lot of people like to know who is visiting their blog and so including some sort of analytics should be an option. Self hosting seems to be a decent tradeoff. Analytics services like Fathom [0], which provides a free, self-hosted solution, let you track basic statistics about your site without the data being siphoned off to some company. I have seen discussion around whether the use of analytics should even be necessary, but I feel like that's a separate conversation :) [0] https://usefathom.com https://usefathom.com
- samaxe 6y agoI might like it if I didn’t have to sign up, and if I could self host it.
- grwthckrmstr 6y agoThis looks exactly like what I've been searching for all this while. Do you plan to release a self hosted/open source version of this? The one thing that makes me uncomfortable about a blogging service - what happens if they shut down?
- nnsne0509 6y ago너무 힘이들것 같아요
- Fiveplus 6y agoWhat does this mean? Why is this here?
- snoozypants 6y agoLol. It's someone's language? Looks like Korean "I think it's too hard"
- sirodoht 6y agoAfter being inspired by Bear Blog I build something similar with this exact concern in mind. Mataroa.blog [1] is a minimal blogging platform with export (to static site generators) as a first class citizen. [1] https://mataroa.blog/ https://mataroa.blog/
- xiaodai 6y agoI need to be able to write math and coding content. So coding blocks and math blocks for writing latex would be ideal.
- peter_d_sherman 6y ago>"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...<g>. 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... <g> 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!" <g> (Kidding, obviously! <g>)
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- adnanh 6y agoI've had a similar idea after looking for something like this to use as a log for interesting stuff that I found on the internet. I ended up building a small ruby app for this (https://github.com/adnanh/mikro https://github.com/adnanh/mikro) and it powers my (b)log which is still alive at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/ http://blog.hajdarevic.net/ Since then, I've wanted to enhance it with URL unfurling, link preserving in terms of creating a snapshot of the linked URLs, smart bookmarklet etc... but never got around to doing it, as life tends to get busy, and other things take priority over that :-(
- rawoke083600 6y agoLooks good ! What is this header ? "X-Clacks-Overhead" :) We getting Discworld meta as well ?
- myfonj 6y agoI think that product template could use either `aria-hidden="true"` or `aria-label="bear"` HTML attributes for screen readers sake (and reconsider title and OG properties); not an expert in this area nor having SR at hand, but I guess that ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ would sound like 'pharyngeal voiced fricative - bullet - letter ain - bullet - glottal stop', what is hardly beneficial for screen reader users. Cool Unicode "picture" though, it's a pity such doodles hurts accessibility (sad smiley).
- st1ck 6y agoGiven that we can't expect everyone to use aria attributes, shouldn't screen readers just have a list of all widely used smileys with descriptive names (if they don't have it already)?
- myfonj 6y agoGood point and interesting question indeed. Finally tried simple speech synthesis demo [0] and in Win10 Firefox it really reads out some "basic ASCII-smileys" as their descriptive translation (and ignores any other set of non-alphabet characters, with few exceptions like underscores and asterisks). Compiled all predefined textual emoticons offered by Gboard app in Android [1] and let the Narrate speech synthesis in Reader view (F9) read them aloud (uses presumably the same synthesis as example) - quite predictably most of them weren't heard at all, but those simple ones that were have surprised me. So most probably there is no problem with that particular Unicode bear in screen readers after all. [0] https://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speak-easy-synthesis/ https://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speak-easy-synthesis/ [1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/myfonj/f6b0ed1c783d16a79d1d8a48292eb7f9/raw/Gboard%2520textual%2520emoticons%2520list https://gist.githubusercontent.com/myfonj/f6b0ed1c783d16a79d...
- charliebrownau 6y agoIs this an opensource project that lets you self host or some paywalled thing ?
- sumeetk 6y agonice initiative ... something which reminds me of ghost ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- kennydude 6y agoNice to see a minimal Django-based blog platform!
- 0-O-0 6y agoThis looks minimal, but a random page that I've visited [1] duplicates article's text 6 times across different meta tags. Sure something that can be improved. [1] https://herman.bearblog.dev/why-i-journal/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/why-i-journal/