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Show HN: Pagoda, a Zen-mode Jekyll blog editor

36 points| alagu | 13 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] wasd|13 years ago|reply
I only had a chance to gloss over it but it looks great. I love the fact that it uses Jekyll and not rails like Obvtse.

Can you use Jekyll plugins?

Does it output a static website?

Is it possible to write the posts using mark down instead of the web editor?

Not so much a question but a suggestion, you should have a version of this hosted on AWS/Heroku so people can see it live.

[+] alagu|13 years ago|reply
Can you use Jekyll plugins?

I haven't tested with plugins. But I doubt if it would work. It works great for Vanilla Jekyll with Markdown.

Does it output a static website?

This is independent of your jekyll site generator. What it does is, gives you an editor for your files inside _posts. It understands yaml matter and saves in Jekyll format.

Is it possible to write the posts using mark down instead of the web editor?

The web editor isn't rich text. You edit in Markdown in the web editor. It is an easier way of creating new posts.

Not so much a question but a suggestion, you should have a version of this hosted on AWS/Heroku so people can see it live.

Totally agree. I had thoughts on hosting a demo site. I'll do it.

[+] ioddly|13 years ago|reply
This looks very nice, I think I'll be using this to write my blog posts in the future. Just one whinge: Jekyll 1.0 now has support for a _drafts folder. You might want to consider using that instead of 'published'.
[+] alagu|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for bringing this up. I haven't upgraded to Jekyll 1.0. Will add this soon.
[+] kurtfunai|13 years ago|reply
This looks great, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Thank you!
[+] dcalacci|13 years ago|reply
This is great. I started working on something very similar to this a few weeks ago. Your project is much more mature, so I may end up contributing.
[+] hablahaha|13 years ago|reply
Samesies. Sad but happy to see someone is further along than I was.
[+] josephers|13 years ago|reply
If you had this as a hosted service, I'd sign my clients up for it!
[+] alagu|13 years ago|reply
That is a good idea. But where do you have your jekyll blog repo? Github?
[+] Void_|13 years ago|reply
So I guess "Zen" is SF-hipster for "simple" now?
[+] dragonwriter|13 years ago|reply
> So I guess "Zen" is SF-hipster for "simple" now?

Well, if you eliminate or substantially expand the geographical restriction, and consider "now" to be for the last few decades or so, sure.

The route to the usage may be kind of weird, but it hasn't been novel to use "zen" for "simple" or "minimalistic" for quite some time.

[+] kumarski|13 years ago|reply
wish I wasn't such a noob. good job on the typography and thanks for contributing.
[+] prollyignored|13 years ago|reply
<rant>

This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool.

I use a custom aspell dictionary for writing in German.

I use a word count status bar.

I use dumb vim aliases to correct "fro" to "for".

I have aliases for unicode symbols.

I have a single bash function that does the editing and push on save.

Isn't my dumb solution better than yours, for me atleast ?

WTF is so zen about full-screen ?

Why aren't you solving real problems for bloggers, getting heard in a sea of me-too's, separating advertisers(propaganda) from truth.

</rant>

edit: Grammar based correction. I'd pay for that, having corrected some just now :)

[+] alagu|13 years ago|reply
This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about a being a lotus in a dirt-pool.

I'm sorry about it. I assume the word is also used in a sense of being calm and out of clutter.

Is't my dumb solution better than yours, for me atleast ?

If your solution works for you, it is definitely better. If you think others also would subscribe to your solution, do post it.

WTF is so zen about full-screen ?

IMHO, Zen is not just about fullscreen. It is about how much minimalistic and uncluttered your experience is.

Why aren't you solving real problems for bloggers, getting heard in a sea of me-too's, separating propaganda from truth.

I didn't start this project to solve problems for bloggers, there are plenty of them solving it really well. It is a niche problem that I had.

[+] s_baby|13 years ago|reply
>This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool.

That's not very Zen of you.