lewisjoe

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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Good perspective. Wordpress is excellent at what it does. It makes complete sense, to go for it to do some serious blogging. This project is for the rest of us, lazy bloggers who've gotten used to using Google Docs as a personal scratc
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Thank you! Regarding customizations, things like SEO, custom footers & pages are in fact very much possible. It's just that I didn't want to put in a lot of effort, with my itch being the only validation :) I'll keep work
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Didn't see that coming! I was about to buy a domain named - http://hexo.press , which would have been a bigger bummer.
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Thanks for trying out. I'll revisit the UI, to be more explicit about clicking the refresh blog button after writing.
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   I'll figure how to get that done! The README there, isn't complete. I'll pack the README with more details on getting it to work on dev/prod machines. Hopefully, by evening :)
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Glad that you liked it. Updating stylesheet is not possible as of now. But, I'll be working on making a lot of it customizable, going forward :)
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Yes. Comparatively speaking, there's this tiny little difference in perspective. HexoPress offers a complete sync between a folder on your Google Drive and your blog. Wordpress doesn't. It just takes a given post from Google Docs,
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Thanks for asking. I've added a link to the demo blog, right on the homepage. Hope that should help others as well.
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   by lewisjoe 10y ago

   Yes, certainly. I'm short of prior experience generating dynamic subdomains. That's probably why I didn't put it in the first cut.
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    Thanks! Regarding monetizing it, I have no plans yet. On doing the math, looks like it can take up to a 1000 users, before it costs me anything significant. If at all it goes north of thousand users(which is a really long way!), I'd gi
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    Once you sign up, you'll have your blog served at hexopress.com/@<the_username_you_choose>
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    Show HN: HexoPress – a blog that syncs with your Google Docs(hexopress.com)

    44 points by lewisjoe 10y ago|32 comments
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    > Lektor is file-based by default, so updating content does not require a cloud server at all but merely access to the root file itself, which can be stored on a service like Dropbox or Google Drive. A developer can use a local server to
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    Naive question: Is it possible to build/run this source in a simulator, VM or something? Is there any way, we can run windows 1.1, and get this up and running as of today?
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    A bit off topic here. I'd like to appreciate how tiny, the payload for the site is. The main js, is just over 18 kb. Too small for a SPA. It loads quickly and reacts reasonably quickly. Good job on that. Noticed that the analytics rel
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    http://hnlive.tk I made this because every time I decide to post something on HN, I hang on for a moment making my mind up on whether it's the right time to post on HN. So, I made this live visualization, showing activity l
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    >I spent much of April and May increasingly grumpy and withdrawn and on edge. Weekends and evenings have become even less useful, instead being clogged by a sense of paralyzing dread that I’m wasting fleeting time if I’m not doing ten am
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    > Because it's quick to test how good someone is at competitive programming, it's easy to grade everyone consistently, and it (somewhat) correlates with actual programming ability. I'd agree. Competitive programming does c
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    I like computers. I did when I was 17 & I still do now. But, as a young developer now, I'm quiet scared of the industry as a whole. The direction it's heading towards. I don't know the right answers but there is quiet a l
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    Thank you! I think I can manage buying a `.co.in` domain, sometime soon. Now that I see it's useful for quiet a few people, I'm convinced it's worth a buy. Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    The site's under heavy traffic and is struggling for life. It's a low end digital ocean droplet and I guess it isn't powerful enough. I apologize for the inconvenience. I'll get it back running smoothly when the traffic
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    I guess it might be because of the free domain(.tk) and its bad reputation.
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    It still is free. You see I'm quiet broke :p
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    The time is saved as unix timestamps(milliseconds since epoch). There's no timezone conversion business on the server!
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    It's cooking. I wanted to validate the project before putting in effort for more stats. Thanks :)
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    The fluctuation in the number of comments & upvotes of the top stories are taken as the metrics. Check [ https://github.com/joelewis/hnlive/blob/master/notes.md](htt... for more info.
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    Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting(hnlive.tk)

    109 points by lewisjoe 10y ago|34 comments
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    Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Activity Indicator(hnlive.tk)

    4 points by lewisjoe 10y ago|0 comments
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    by lewisjoe 10y ago

    Great job! I've been working on a related tool that could be useful as well. http://hnlive.tk/static/index.html is a "live" HN activity meter. I wrote it for myself. Anytime before posting to HN, I use
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    Why Open Source Is Hard(techster.herokuapp.com)

    2 points by lewisjoe 10y ago|0 comments