As the creator of specter puts it, specter is:<p>- A pleasant writing environment
- A system that can be configured and deployed in minutes
- Customization that is limited only by your imagination.
- Power of node and elastic search in your blog.<p>Be sure to give it a try!
Uninteresting: "Use my blog platform! It has the power of node!"<p>Interesting: "I wrote something new in a way or with tools that I had not used before. Here's what worked, here's what didn't, and here's what I learned."<p>Unfortunately, this is the former. I'd be interested in reading the latter if you wrote something up about your experience with this.
Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor?<p>Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing more. I definitely have some trouble finishing the posts that I start, but I get the distinct impression that using one of these would be akin to getting a gym membership: if I'm not finishing blog posts now I won't magically start finishing blog posts just because of this new tool.
I set it up just now, and it was very easy to get moving. I'm no ops master, but it only took a few minutes, and it's a bit nicer than the homerolled solution I had been using. My writeup is on my new blog at <a href="http://nevinera.net/trying-out-specter" rel="nofollow">http://nevinera.net/trying-out-specter</a>
Giving credit where it is due. Specter was inspired by simple<p><a href="https://github.com/gschier/simple-blog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gschier/simple-blog</a><p>I wrote about it here<p><a href="http://www.staticshin.com/inspiration-behind-specter" rel="nofollow">http://www.staticshin.com/inspiration-behind-specter</a>
Just deployed it for an internal work blog (just happened to see this particular post at the right time), and I love new projects so I'll use it for awhile and see what I see.<p>Obviously it'd be "nice" to have some better contributor management, and instead of forcing me to manipulate the URL to do stuff it'd be "nice" to just click buttons, but frankly I don't care much about any of that.<p>Real feature request: Language specific syntax highlighting for the code bits. I'd like my snippets to come with highlighting as I explain stuff. JavaScript, Python, C, HTML to start, if you have to pick some languages. :)<p>Also I notice at the bottom of <i>your</i> blog an rrs and atom feed set of links. any plans on implementing that globally?
To the creator:<p>I'm sorry. My initial reaction to that was harsh and childish. I wish you the best of luck with your project, and if I can do anything to help please let me know.
Oh hey look, another low/no setup Markdown based "blog platform" that uses Shitstrap and has a mysterious name and a .io domain.<p>Ugh. I wonder how many more of these we'll see before the year's end.