SAsandebert·Feb 6, 2022Submission
Expose – a static site generator for photoessays
2 points · Open discussionJack000
Expose
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Jack000 / Expose
Expose
A simple static site generator for photoessays
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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12 sourcesI used https://github.com/Jack000/Expose a couple of times. Advantage: it generates a static site. Disadvantage: it must be customized almost certainly. It's a bash script.
In Files – Single-file photo gallery and file managerThis is super cool. I was always a fan of Expose (https://github.com/Jack000/Expose) because of accessibility to beginners like me, and few dependencies. Pandoc is similar, but powerful, and I like that this leans on that. With a custom template this could be really neat.
In Show HN: Blog platform using Linux commandsFrom a "I think it's more technical" to "I think it's less technical" order:
* This website uses fullPage.js [1], which is a widely used javascript library for such full screen presentation (for instance Apple use it in their Mac Pro promo page [2]). You can get around it's API if you know a little HTML and a little javascript, but it's still a lot of manual work. And the neatier features are locked behind a (totally justified) paywall.
* One neat generator I know is Jack Qiao's Expose[3] which he mainly uses in his travel photography website [4]. Check out those sweet cinemagraphs ! Unfortunately it is a command-line program which may be a bit obtuse to non-developer (especially on Windows), and the text placement has to be set manually
* Shameless plug: as a side project, I made a clone of Expose in Python [5] (demo [6]) with no video s
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upport but explicit Markdown support (so you can embed maps, youtube videos and others ). It's still a command line app, but I'm working on a second version that uses Electron and has a more WYSIWYG approach. It is still very much a side project though.
* You could look at some web-based presentation framework. Slid.es [7] is an WYSIWYG builder for the reveal.js library [8]. It's mainly used for Powerpoint-ish presentation (ex. [9][10]), but with a touch of creativity you can do neat thing, like this portfolio [11].
[1]: https://alvarotrigo.com/fullPage/
[2]: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
[3]: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose
[4]: http://jack.ventures/
[5]: https://github.com/PetitPrince/pyxpose
[6]: http://petitprince.github.io/pyxpose-demo/gallery.html
[7]: https://slides.com/
[8]: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
[9]: http://motivate.slides.com/motivateco/deck-8-9#/
[10]: https://ourworldindata.org/slides/world-poverty/
[11]: http://ianspiro.com/portfolio/
EDIT: Whoa, paradite mentionned Pageflow. This seems really neat !
Show HN: Colapixel – A video/photo gallery with annotations
My sister asked me if I can set up a site similar to jack.ventures for her a month ago. She said it was open source (https://github.com/Jack000/Expose) and should be easy and I just need to run a script (rolls eyes). I did that and two weeks later her friends saw it and want me to run the same script for them.
So I decided to take some weekends to build something similar using nodejs/redis/mysql, put up a user registration page, user profile page and add some editing features. So now everyone can sign up without me having to run any 'script'.
Just push the first draft live. Things might be buggy but the website is functional. https://colapixel.com
Here's a demo story that explain some of the features. https://colapixel.com/story/Eo466y
Here are some stories on my trip to Taiwan. https://colapixel.com/story/5WNAdPr https://colapixel.com/st
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So sign up if you are interested and report back any bugs. Thanks HN folks!
These two, by Jack Qiao:
http://jack.works/
http://jack.ventures/
These sites have set the standard of beautiful personal website for me. Despite their modern appearances, they're both just static sites, generated with bash: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose
In Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?Ask HN: “Hacker Style” Photo Album Book Software
Do you know any good (printed) Photo Book Makers?
Preferably something "Hacker Style" where you describe what you want to have in your book (photos + layout + text) using some DSL and describe a template/layout and then get a PDF (or similar) out of.
Or something similar like https://github.com/Jack000/Expose but not for the Web but for printing.
1 points · Open discussionI found it: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose
In Link to travel blog platform that included clips of transcoded videos?Expose looks very impressive, and was posted here 74 days ago:
https://github.com/Jack000/Expose
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376468
In Show HN: Photish, a simple multithreaded static photo portfolio generatorShow HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos
548 points · Open discussionSimple Static Site Generator for Photo/Editorial Mix Content (Written in Bash)
1 points · Open discussionI think this is the static site generator he developed and used for the site: https://github.com/Jack000/expose
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