Show HN: Prose.sh – A Blog Platform for Hackers

by qudat • 4 years ago

20 10 4 years ago

qudat4• 4 years ago

Hey all!

We are excited to officially release https://prose.sh

prose.sh is a markdown-based blog platform like many others that already exist. The twist to prose.sh is that all content management happens with SSH. You don't publish posts on prose.sh, instead you copy your markdown files locally to us via `scp`. It uses public-key cryptography to manage authentication and authorization.

prose.sh was built primarily with https://charm.sh.

prose.sh was built by https://pico.sh which is a small team of engineers who want to make the web smol.

Happy to answer any questions!

archb3• 4 years ago

This looks great! I have been recently using 1Password as my ssh-agent, which means my SSH keypair will always be available on all devices where I am logged into 1Password and can blog on prose.

Questions after having used the product for 5 minutes:

1. Do you have plans to allow for customization? For, I want to get rid of italics on the date and be able to add menu items.

2. What happens if I `scp ~/blog/file.md prosh.sh:/`? Will the previously-uploaded content remain online? Perhaps more of a scp question? This is my first time using the command.

qudat4• 4 years ago

Thanks so much for taking a look!

1. We are playing around with the idea of allowing users to provide their own css file. This would not change the content or structure of the blog / posts, but would allow end-users to change the styling.

2. Once you upload a post, it'll stay up even if you run `scp` that doesn't include the file. See https://prose.sh/help#blog-upload-single-file for more details.

d4rkp4ttern2• 4 years ago

Any chance of supporting math notation ? (MathJax, Katex, …)

qudat4• 4 years ago

Under the hood we're using goldmark. Would something like this extension be sufficient? https://github.com/litao91/goldmark-mathjax

d4rkp4ttern2• 4 years ago

It looks like this would be good, especially if it supports “full” MathJax such as aligned equations etc. as on this page:

https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-b...

LionTamer• 4 years ago

This looks very cool. I appreciate the emphasis on simplicity and ease of use.

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