oinam-jekyll
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5 months ago | 22 days ago | |
CSS | Go | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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oinam-jekyll
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Ask HN: Preferred Platform to Blog
As we are on HN, I'm going to assume that you are comfortable using Github and can follow instructions.
Write it on Github and publish on your domain. Github has an option for you to fire up a web-editor (VSCode) right there in the browser with the keyboard `.` (<- that is a period). So, you can write right then and there (I do it quite often these days).
When publishing, choose a Jekyll theme of your choice from Github Pages[1]. Your focus now are just enough plain text (Markdown).
If you want to bring it to your desktop/device, just checkout the repo and write. These days, my choice is to just write in Obsidian and don't even try to run Jekyll.
What do you get out of this? The simplicity of focusing on your writing with almost Plain Text while Github takes care of your theme, hosting, SSL, and custom domain[2].
Of course, you will need to book a domain and own it. I like Cloudflare[3] that takes care of pretty much everything you want to do with a domain for free. If you so wish, you can even let Cloudflare do the page building[4] and hosting while you keep Github for the source.
Plug: I build a super simple Jekyll theme[5] just so I can do this. I wrote an article about it on my website[6].
1. https://pages.github.com
2. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain...
3. https://www.cloudflare.com
4. https://pages.cloudflare.com
5. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/
6. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
- A simple, clean, and minimal Jekyll Blog Template – easy deploy to GitHub Pages
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SimpleCSS: A Classless CSS Framework
Simple.css is a well done classless 'framework'. I stumbled on it a while back and started using it and thought this can be my go-to styles for tit-bits of websites that I do for landing pages, family websites etc. However, this is pretty opinionated (including some animations) and I had to abandon it. But I remained inspired by its simplicity and forked my own[1] broke it down. I broke it down to the most basic, but then can be built on top of it -- progressively get a website "designed" far enough but not further.
If you are into these simple classes, check out Drop-in Minimal CSS[2] and choose the one that fits your need.
Simple.css is from an interesting guy, Kev Quirk[3], whose 512kb[4] website was on Hackernews a while back (don't recollect if it was a story or a comment). Hi Kev, if you are around.
If you are spinning up a simple website with classless styles, perhaps it is a good idea to add a print styles and I like Gutenberg[5] for that.
1. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/
2. https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/
3. https://kevq.uk/about/
4. https://512kb.club
5. https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg
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Pollen – A library of CSS variables inspired by TailwindCSS
Ah! This is brilliant. There are quite a few comments here about pitching this against other CSS frameworks or the actual use of this.
This is not a stand-alone framework or anything of that start. Treat as one of your scaffold components for your styling framework. Tailwind does this with their tailwind.config.js and is more of raw CSS design tokens. I just wish their commercial TailWindUI[1] make it easy to make use of it the better way.
I wish I saw Pollen a few months ago. I wanted to do an effortless design for my personal website and stick to as plain vanilla CSS as possible. The best way was to rely on CSS-Variables. I did do it from scratch[2]. It works though it is pretty hacky, and I'm not too concerned. Right now, I can swap few values and have an entirely different color scheme - light/dark version of my own, Nord Theme[3], and I will keep adding me whenever I get bored. I can even tweak the rhythms and spacing to my liking with just the variable. You should check out the demo[4] or look at the source[5] (wip).
For those who find this interesting, you should check out another interesting one I discovered a few months back -- css-media-vars[6].
1. https://tailwindui.com
2. https://github.com/oinam/oinam-jekyll/blob/main/_includes/cs...
3. https://www.nordtheme.com
4. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/
5. https://github.com/oinam/oinam-jekyll
6. https://github.com/propjockey/css-media-vars
WriteFreely
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One of the greatest user interface disasters in history
Mastodon is a microblogging service, so not meant for large bodies of text. This is why the text entry box is small, the columns are somewhat narrow (especially in deck mode) etc.
Platforms like https://writefreely.org/ , which are designed to be for blogging and long-form writing, are the place to write this. Write Freely federates so one can follow accounts and interact with posts via Mastodon etc.
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From Jason: my custom digital garden in 11ty
Write Freely, open source writing space
- Simple WYSIWYG html editor? Open source or cheap.
- [Vell Harlan and the Doomsday Dorms] - Book 1 is now on Amazon!
- If anyone’s interested in moving off Reddit, a possible alternative.
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What self hosted app do you wish existed?
Docs - https://writefreely.org/
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Hi. I created a copy on Lemmy just in case Reddit goes down the drain. If any of the current mods wants mod access there, just let me know. If you think this is a horrible idea, also let me know and I'll remove it.
It's all about federation, in these federated networks all these servers talk to eachother and exchange messages about stuff going on on the servers. So it's easy to set up a hidden service for the webui of one of them, but it's sometimes quite obscure to try and set up the federation for one of them. It depends on what settings they honor and what other types of encryption and authentication they require and stuff. But, if you put some effort in ahead of time, you can make it really simple: I don't know how to do it in rust(lemmy is written in rust), but here's a neat example of how to do it in Go: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/710 which requires no complicated configuration.
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Which platform for occasional blog posts?
An alternative to Plume is WriteFreely, which is a pretty clean & simple experience. Just don't expect to much regarding customization.
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It’s 2023. Start using JavaScript Map and Set
I also wish write.as were more popular. It's like old Medium, but less popular but with a more reader-friendly business model and self-host-able (AGPL v3)
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ActivityPub server that can run on Docker with external db?
And since you've mentioned you want to write a blog, take a look at WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/
What are some alternatives?
Discord_Theme - 🎨 A discord theme that changes your CSS style
Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)
simple.css - Simple.css is a CSS template that allows you to make a good looking website really quickly.
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
nord - An arctic, north-bluish color palette.
hugo-importer - CLI tool for migrating Hugo content to Write.as/WriteFreely
awesome-css-frameworks - List of awesome CSS frameworks in 2024
Joomla! - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
pollen - The CSS variables build system
Grav - Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
astro - The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.