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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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	1	1	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
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	3	0	3
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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salamo·Jul 21, 2024

By far the easiest if you just want to go from markdown to online blog would be a static site on Github pages. I use Hugo [0] with a custom theme but there are even easier options if you don't even care about style. In particular, I have used Grip [1], which can generate HTML from markdown. [0] https://lukesalamone.github.io [1] https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

fresh2dev·Apr 6, 2024

A popular implementation of the idea written in Python: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In Show HN: ghore, an Offline Renderer for GitHub flavoured Markdown

janalsncm·Oct 5, 2023

For creating static web pages I usually use grip [1] to convert markdown. If you’re lazy this even works as a blog. I suppose if you’re even lazier you can just use a GitHub repo directly. [1] https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In Show HN: Use your familiar Markdown editor to create and publish web pages

tyingq·Aug 31, 2021

There's also grip, which works similarly. Maybe some ideas you could implement from there. For example, it supports using your own GitHub credentials. https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In MDcat – Simple Markdown to GitHub styled HTML converter

Jach·Jun 8, 2021

Sure, one executable is nice, that might be enough of a payoff for some people to overlook the rest. I think you may be underestimating the amount of choice that's out there though. For documentation alone there's countless options that don't require a centralized online thing. Three I'd use over Fossil again are 1) simple project doc/ folder with .md files inside (which you can render locally to look just like github with https://github.com/joeyespo/grip) 2) Doxygen or a language-specific equivalent if it's better 3) libreoffice docs stored either in the same repo or another one (perhaps a submodule). For project management I'm less familiar with the options out there but I'd be surprised if there was nothing that gives a really stellar offline experience. I'd give a preemptive win to Fossil on the narrow aspect that your issue tracking

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changes can be synced and merged automatically with a collaborative server when you come back online, whereas if you stood up your own instance of Trac for instance I'm not sure if they have any support for syncing. If you're working by yourself, though, then there's no problem, Trac and many others work just like Fossil and stand up a local server (or are dedicated standalone programs) and work the same whether you're offline or online. But when I'm working solo I prefer low-tech over anything that resembles Jira (and I don't even really dislike Jira) -- I've played with https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue as another offline/off-platform option but in my most recent ongoing solo project I'm quite happy with a super low-tech issues text file that has entries like (easy to make with https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode) +--------------+ | Add thing | +==============+ | Done whens / | | other info | +--------------+ and when I'm closing one I just move it to the issues-closed file as part of the closing commit. I might give it an identifier if I need to reference it in the code/over multiple commits.

In Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file

foob·May 30, 2021

There's an open-source project called grip [1] that can render markdown to HTML that looks almost identical to the GitHub rendering. It can do either live preview or export to HTML. I use it for previewing GitHub READMEs while I edit them, and it does an excellent job for that purpose. [1] https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In Show HN: TeXMe – Create self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents

homarp·May 17, 2019

for those who might wonder, like me: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip a command-line server application written in Python that uses the GitHub markdown API to render a local readme file.

In Get Your Book, Make It Free

joeyespo·Apr 21, 2018

This way of thinking was my main motivation behind Grip [0]. Use Readme-driven development and "play" with the API--whether it's in the form of a CLI, a library, or web API-- through usage examples. I've found this to be a wonderful way to get into the heads of dev users before you approach them directly. [0]: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In Designing very large JavaScript applications

polm23·Mar 4, 2018Submission

Grip: Preview GitHub README Locally

1 points · Open discussion

g_klein·Jul 19, 2017Submission

Preview GitHub Markdown files like Readme locally before committing them

3 points · Open discussion

anderspitman·Apr 20, 2016Submission

Grip: GitHub Readme Instant Preview

4 points · Open discussion

anderspitman·Apr 20, 2016

For folks looking for a simple Github Flavored Markdown previewer I've been very happy with grip: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

In Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

cjauvin·Feb 3, 2016

The markdown-to-pdf resume toolchain I'm currently using is: (1) Render with https://github.com/joeyespo/grip (with a few minor CSS tweaks) (2) "Print" to PDF with Chrome The documents it produces are quite sober, but I find it works very well.

In Show HN: Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes

joeyespo·Sep 27, 2013Submission

Grip (Github Readme Instant Preview) 2.0 released

1 points · Open discussion

joeyespo·Dec 4, 2012Submission

Show HN: Small command-line tool to locally render Readme files like GitHub

3 points · Open discussion