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Show HN: Matrix, a fast and flexible blogging engine

by lispylol on 5/14/14, 1:52 AM with 10 comments

Still pretty rough ...

Emphasizes:

1) Simple, no-frill dashboard for managing posts (files). 2) Lightweight markdown editor 3) Relationships: taxonomy (file tagging) and fast linking (content to other posts)

Some of the important key bindings I have are ctrl+c for code, ctrl-L for linking text to other posts. Right now this is baked in but I'd want to allow users to customize it.

It's still pretty beta but let me know what ya'll think!

Here's the github page if you want to help out: https://github.com/keera/matrix

  • by lispylol on 5/14/14, 1:40 PM

    I posted a text description but just found out that you can't post both in a submission.

    This is still in the very alpha stages but here are the main ideas of the project:

    1) Simple, no-frill dashboard for managing posts (files). Once you're happy with a file you can publish it to your blog.

    2) Key bindings (right now the only main ones are ctrl-c for code formatting and ctrl-l for linking). Eventually these will be completely user configurable.

    3) Relational (not in the db sense): you can tag your files with labels and fast link text in your files to other files.

    Sorry about the confusion! You can find the source here https://github.com/keera/matrix

  • by haliphax on 5/14/14, 9:27 PM

    Growing very tired of trendy new apps that have no "about" link whatsoever -- just "login" and "sign up". Login and/or sign up for WHAT?!

    Edit: I mean, where are the screenshots? Feature lists? Information about WHO is providing the service/app? Et cetera...

  • by Frozenlock on 5/14/14, 5:06 AM

    It broke my back button...

  • by hmans on 5/14/14, 8:06 AM

    What is this I don't even

  • by dang on 5/14/14, 2:37 AM

    (The submitter included a text description of the project, but those don't show up if the post has a URL. You need to post it as a comment in a thread.)

  • by dmamills on 5/14/14, 3:32 AM

    This is pretty unpolished sir

  • by tacticus on 5/14/14, 2:52 AM

    Why the hell would you put the new file into a popup that disables resizable?

    (additionally why the hell does chrome honor that brain dead option.)