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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/
pandoc
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Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.
I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.
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Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
This is one of those things that the ever-amazing pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does very well, on top of supporting virtually every other document format.
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LaTeX makes me so angry at word
Folks feel the same way about Markdown versus LaTeX: why use something significantly more complicated where a looser, human-readable grammar works better?
For any other situations, I use https://pandoc.org/, or, generate a Word doc scriptomatically.
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📓 Versionner et builder l'eBook de son Entretien Annuel d'Evaluation sur Git(Hub)
pandoc toolchain pour builder une version confortable/imprimable en phase de travail (ePub, pdf, docx, html)
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Congrats on the launch, I guess, but there are so many free options that I can't think of a situation where paying $0.25 per document would be justified...? Just to name a few:
Back in the days, I used to use XSL-FO [0] and it was okay. It was not very precise but it rarely if ever broke, and was perfectly integrated with an XML/XSLT solution. Yeah, this was a long time ago.
Last month I used html-to-pdfmake [1] and it's also not very precise and more fragile, but very efficient and fast.
Yet another approach would be to pro grammatically generate .rtf files (for example) and use Pandoc [2] to produce PDFs (I have not tried this in production but don't see why it wouldn't work).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow.
[1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
[2]: https://pandoc.org/
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Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?
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Pandoc
I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.
- I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
- What Happened to Pandoc-Discuss?
What are some alternatives?
Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)
pandoc-highlighting-extensions - Extensions to Pandoc syntax highlighting
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
obsidian-html - :file_cabinet: A simple tool to convert an Obsidian vault into a static directory of HTML files.
hugo-importer - CLI tool for migrating Hugo content to Write.as/WriteFreely
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown
Grav - Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
Obsidian-MD-To-PDF - A command line python script to convert Obsidian md files to a pdf
Joomla! - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.
Publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.
wavedrom - :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine