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> (Note) there is an obvious opportunity to create a medium like experience that lets people blog using Hugo and Netlify. I open an app, connect to my account (

> (Note) there is an obvious opportunity to create a medium like experience that lets people blog using Hugo and Netlify. I open an app, connect to my account (GitHub pages, or Netlify) type my article and post. This is what I'd really like. All these alternatives assume you want to use your editor in the terminal and git and CI publication process. I want to edit markdown text in a web browser and click a button to see how its rendered and then go back to the editor without changing contexts at all. The editor/git/CI model feels too much like actual fucking $dayjob work. Writing is already a difficult enough process -- lets turn it into software development while we're at it! I need to worry more about dependency management of my plugins while I'm trying to write and publish something. Medium is worse though, its very annoying.

wikibob 5y ago
This is exactly what I want. A modern Wordpress. But with strict guide rails and simplicity. Does such a thing exist? I’ve seen ghost but it’s quite expensive for personal use.
- collinmanderson 5y ago
  I’ve ended up using something like the “headless WordPress” technique mentioned in the article on one of my websites, though I use a simple Django front end to pull directly from WordPress db. It’s super fast. I really like WordPress’s out-of-the box classic editing experience and revision history. It’s probably missing some of the “strict guide rails” you probably want, but I can at least disable user-uploaded plugins which helps a lot.
ssb1 5y ago
Well there is https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/
seg_lol 5y ago
https://hackmd.io/ https://hackmd.io/ is pretty nice for editing markdown, I haven't used the site in a long time. It looks like they are offering something commercial which is nice. Anyway hackmd+zero click integration to posting to a serving system, anything.
unraveller 5y ago
>I want to edit markdown text in a web browser and click a button to see how its rendered and then go back to the editor without changing contexts at all. imml[1] comes close to this, it's all css tricks to display content so I imagine SEO would suffer until search engine's learn css #navigation but for everyone else it just works. If it had a push to github pages button it would be the perfect minimalist site/blog. For now the publishing step involves downloading the single resulting html file and uploading it manually with surge.sh or to the website host you bought your domain from. [1] https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/# https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/#

wikibob 5y ago

This is exactly what I want. A modern Wordpress. But with strict guide rails and simplicity. Does such a thing exist? I’ve seen ghost but it’s quite expensive for personal use.

collinmanderson 5y ago
I’ve ended up using something like the “headless WordPress” technique mentioned in the article on one of my websites, though I use a simple Django front end to pull directly from WordPress db. It’s super fast. I really like WordPress’s out-of-the box classic editing experience and revision history. It’s probably missing some of the “strict guide rails” you probably want, but I can at least disable user-uploaded plugins which helps a lot.

ssb1 5y ago

Well there is https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/

seg_lol 5y ago

https://hackmd.io/ https://hackmd.io/ is pretty nice for editing markdown, I haven't used the site in a long time. It looks like they are offering something commercial which is nice. Anyway hackmd+zero click integration to posting to a serving system, anything.

unraveller 5y ago

>I want to edit markdown text in a web browser and click a button to see how its rendered and then go back to the editor without changing contexts at all. imml[1] comes close to this, it's all css tricks to display content so I imagine SEO would suffer until search engine's learn css #navigation but for everyone else it just works. If it had a push to github pages button it would be the perfect minimalist site/blog. For now the publishing step involves downloading the single resulting html file and uploading it manually with surge.sh or to the website host you bought your domain from. [1] https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/# https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/#