Honestly your use case sounds like www.ghost.org

Built for straightforward text based posts. I embed images by uploading them to flickr and then linking. It’s web based (I think they made a desktop app as well).

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i run two self hosted ghost instances. Easy to set up (my first time using nodejs toolchain), and very easy to use as a post author (markdown with live preview, drag and drop images…).
Themes, i have not really messed up with, but making one is not harder than any other solution.

Do you have a link to instructions on how to self-host Ghost? I couldn’t find anything via their website.

https://support.ghost.org/developers/ has the instructions

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Good stuff everyone; thanks.

I’ll take a look at all the links and see what feels best.

Semi-related: has anyone per chance compiled a list of any of our members’ personal sites?

In the spirit of a decentralized, open net and all that…

Sounds like a new thread that should be started :slight_smile:

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Well that escalated…semi-quickly: just rented some space on a shared server.

I also stumbled upon a moribund WP account that I guess I never actually started using.

I haven’t had time or space to get far beyond the most basic nameserver pointing, SFTP-ing, pass wording, and general -ing of the whole setup, but we’ll get along in time.

Maybe I’ll blow my own mind and have a Hugo site, a WP site (basically comes with the hosting), a Jekyll site, a Haeckel site, a scribbly hand-written site, etc.

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Quick opinion request: do we like Sublime as a free OS X text/code editor?

Seems legit.

Anything better/faster/awesomer for a geriatric Web 1.0 user?

I’ve been using Atom (https://atom.io/).

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Atom and Sublime are both wonderful.

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(as an update from my previous post : it looks like indexhibit is now mobile-friendly.)

sublime, i use for everything. (but i haven’t looked at atom)

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+1 for Hugo, if you’re comfortable on the command line then it’s very fast and very easy to use.

I used Sublime until I learned that Atom has a built-in terminal, so I switched.

Sublime development has also pretty much stagnated. Nearly everyone I know who used to develop on it has since switched to Atom.

Just realized that Atom now has over 5000 packages available. Definitely seems to have caught up with Sublime.

VS Code is pretty cool too (saying this from osx). Used it mainly with unity for a recent project, but it’s obvioulsy great for web stuff. The debugger is awesome.

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sold on atom within the first few minutes. feels quite refined, smoother, and i appreciate that it’s open and being developed. thanks for the heads up!

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Atom is also the preferred editor for Tidal (unless you’re an emacs fan). The TidalCycles plugin that allows for single and multi-line execution exists for Atom, but not Sublime.

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For Windows users, there’s also Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/