Blog from the Command Line — https://weblog.sh/
weblog.sh is a blogging platform boiled down to its core. The only features are to save a draft, and to publish it.
The post format is plain text1, use SCP to transfer posts. First line is the title.
It serves posts under your ~username, which is the only thing it knows about you, aside from SSH key or password authentication.
The service aims to reduce the blogging workflow and presentation to its minimum, employing only core blogging features. Basically trying to get as close to "text files in a folder" but not leaving the "published online" domain. An antithesis to rich blogging platforms.
1: [link format https://weblog.sh], this is the web after all
This project repository — weblog.sh — contains the source code for the site.
The features are minimal. You get a home page, which shows an index of all your posts, and a page for each article. An Atom feed is also provided, articles are syndicated in full.
As for personalization, you have one setting, and only once - your username.
Users are anonymous, no information is explicitly requested other than the preferred username.
No password recovery system is in place, or ever will be. If an account is lost, or compromised, it is likely to stay that way forever.
The system is designed to have as little personally identifying information as possible (afaik IPs in logs), in the case of a leak data exposed will only slightly be meaningful than what's already publicly available on the platform.
Passwords are stored after a one-way encryption.
The service runs on a custom SSH server, supporting the SCP protocol to let netrw users directly manipulate posts.
Other than that, it's mostly a basic Express web app.
- You need mongodb installed (on Mac OS with homebrew -
brew install mongodb && brew services start mongo) - You need redis installed (on Mac OS with homebrew -
brew install redis && brew services start redis) - Clone repo & cd into it
npm installssh-keygen -t ./tmp/host.key -N ''env NODE_ENV=development node .
- Install docker
- Clone repo & cd into it
npm installssh-keygen -t ./tmp/host.key -N ''- Edit
docker-compose.yaml(if you want) docker-compose upordocker-compose up -d- Teardown via
docker-compose down
Don't forget that the SSH server is litening on port 2222. Fronend is at http://localhost:3000
- Take up any of the issues reported in Github Issues
- Answer user questions, issues arising with usage
- Or look into the detail, and maybe fix reported bugs
- Report bugs using Github Issues
- Also welcome: suggestions, opinion, open discussions
- Support the project through ♥︎Gratipay
We are using Issues as a to-do list. Items are labeled according to their priority and which component they are for.
postmaster at weblog•sh
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007
weblog.sh - hosted blogging service managed through SSH and SCP
Copyright (C) 2015 Conrado Patricio Ambrosio
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