~dupunkto/pubb

The Big Rewrite (of That One Project I Did Not Name Yet).

Untitled

This yet-to-be-named project is a prototype for my untitled successor to neopub, temporarily codenamed Pubb for the engine and Pebble for the CMS. It's a playground to explore ways to blend websites, social media and collaboration on the Web, by implementing an easy-to-use website engine powered by various open web standards, such as micropub, microformats, webmention, pingback, and (eventually), ActivityPub.

This is the succcesor to neopub, an earlier attempt at building a microblogging platform.

An earlier version of this projects exists, named neopub/untitled. This is an improved and rewritten version of that codebase.

Features

CMS

I've also build a cozy little CMS to power this website engine. The CMS is inspired by earlier versions of Blogger and has a bunch of cool features:

CLI

pub < post.txt
pub -i image.png
pub -i graph.png -n
echo "caption" | pub -i another.png
echo "caption" | pub -c main.c

Optional -n flag uploads the image but doesn't include it in the feeds, useful for including images in a post. Optional -c flag copies the url to keyboard. otherwise, write to stdout.

Eventually?

I'm also thinking about other things, but I've shelved them until I have a working site up-and-running:

Goals

Easy publishing from my phone. Hit icon, type something, attach picture, post.

Easy publishing from my laptop. Writing post in Markdown in Helix, pasting images (automatically uploading to the cdn, with -n flag).

Non-goals

Tests. I get it, they're important for ensuring code quality and confidence in codebases in professional settings. But this is a side-project that I'm building in my spare time, for fun. Don't ruin that for me please.

Bookmarks, crossposts, likes. I want to encourage conversation, collaboration and meaningful interaction. Mindlessly double tapping doesn't fit that vision.