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by geoffreymcgill 4mo ago
I work on Retype. We're loving using Obsidian to edit our .md files but also need a low-effort solution for publishing. Some of the projects we're working on are generating heaps of markdown files, so it's been nice to build
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New Retype for Obsidian Plugin(retype.com)
4 points by geoffreymcgill 4mo ago|1 comments
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by geoffreymcgill 7mo ago
I’m the author of Retype. I wrote this guide as a practical walkthrough for self-hosting an Obsidian vault. I’d really appreciate your feedback or ideas on what could be improved.
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Self-Hosting Obsidian Vault with Retype(retype.com)
3 points by geoffreymcgill 7mo ago|1 comments
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by geoffreymcgill 1y ago
If you need an option to publish your notes online, check out Retype ( https://retype.com ). You can use Obsidian or GitBook or any Markdown files as your GUI editor and generate a static website using Retype.
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by geoffreymcgill 1y ago
My understanding is that the $64.25M in "bidding" wasn’t real, as it was likely done with chandelier bids. Essentially fake phantom bids placed by the auctioneer to simulate interest and push the price upward. It’s a common tactic
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by geoffreymcgill 2y ago
I met plenty of Americans in both Iran and North Korea. American tourists often receive extra interest and admiration from the locals, who express a genuine warmth and fascination towards them.
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by geoffreymcgill 2y ago
> was there anything fascinating about North Korea that you couldn't have gotten from South Korea yes, a different perspective. EDIT/ADD: Witness one of the world’s most secretive states, firsthand experience of a communist reg
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by geoffreymcgill 2y ago
I've been to both and can report a positive experience. The DPRK trip was fascinating. The thing I remember most about Iran is how friendly everyone was to us.
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by geoffreymcgill 3y ago
How about Retype? https://retype.com
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
GitBook is a static site generator, essentially. Just wrapped in an online UI.
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
MDX is interesting and powerful, although creates all kinds of portability issues and is a terribly leaky abstraction of what should be a simple content syntax. Very much (IMHO) against the ethos and beauty of Markdown.
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
> or may disappear entirely is due to the lock-in and vanishing of previous tools I've used. Another important point. Retype is distributed via NPM and NuGet (.NET) package managers. Once a release is published, we can't walk i
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
> but it represents some amount of lock-in (though, less than typical since the everything is mostly plain markdown) This is an important point. Retype has been developed with the explicit goal of preventing lock-in. For better or worse,
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
While gitbook does wrap the branching/merging process in a UI that is digestible by non-developers, Retype is far more powerful because you actually use GitHub (or GitLab). You have the full power of GitHub, including branching, pull-r
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
BookStack looks interesting, but certainly one massive advantage Retype has is just installation. I can have Retype installed, my website built, and running in a browser in a 10 seconds. With Retype, your content source are simple Markdown
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
Ya, I've thought about open-sourcing the project many times, but there doesn't seem to be much upside.
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
Retype builds directly off Markdown files, which you can store anywhere, including GitHub. The retype.com website is built directly from a GitHub repo, see https://github.com/retypeapp/retype The retype.com website is
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
Replaced the Pro link in the header with Pricing and added Retype Pro link in the left sidebar main nav. Hope this helps.
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
I added a link in the footer to the License. Certainly was not my intention in any way hide the license. Hope this helps. > The page limits, while high, are somewhat unsettling. Can you explain this _unsettling_ comment further? Do you f
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by geoffreymcgill 4y ago
Thanks for the excellent feedback. We'll definitely add something to the home page which makes the Pro option more visible.
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Retype: A self-hosted and free alternative to gitbook(retype.com)
59 points by geoffreymcgill 4y ago|28 comments
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by geoffreymcgill 5y ago
Free for projects with up to 100 content pages. Pro pricing will be available for 5-10x lower than GitBook. Self hosting of the generated website, which isn't possible with GitBook. Ability to remove `Powered by` branding, which again
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Retype, a self-hosted alternative to GitBook(retype.com)
13 points by geoffreymcgill 5y ago|3 comments
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by geoffreymcgill 6y ago
Cool. New Examples Explorer too, see https://examples.ext.net . Let me know what you think.
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by geoffreymcgill 6y ago
A chart to help visualize some of those countries... https://i.imgur.com/WrYORJL.png
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by geoffreymcgill 6y ago
Sweden passed France in relative Total Deaths the very next day. https://i.imgur.com/2iBcWi2.png
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by geoffreymcgill 6y ago
Big spike in confirmed cases for Sweden yesterday: https://i.imgur.com/Wca1VeY.png I'm not sure what changed.
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by geoffreymcgill 6y ago
If France and Sweden were the same population, here's a chart of confirmed cases (7 day average) and total deaths. https://i.imgur.com/oiybcsx.png Sweden will easily pass France in the next few days, yet new infections
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by geoffreymcgill 6y ago
Making a comparison of Sweden (10,094,432 population) vs Czech Republic (10,707,502 population) seems to reveal a very different story. New cases (7 day average): https://i.imgur.com/fciq4Ra.png Total deaths: https:/&

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