Author of Journey here (thanks Maksadbek for posting it on HN).
I'm going to repost my comment from Reddit:<p>I've been working on this blog engine in my spare time for the last few months. My blog has been running on it without hiccups for about a month now (low volume, 700 visits a day tops).<p>I'd like some opinions if anyone has the time to try it out. (Worth pursuing? Any ideas for features? Should I die in a fire because my code quality sucks?)<p>Thanks :)
Are people serious when they say they "love the idea" of copying a binary to their server to run a blog service? It sounds very much like installing a shareware in the 90s.<p>In the current context (NSA, generalized spying, ...), I hope that everybody realizes it's not an ideal way to distribute software.<p>Please provide cryptographic signatures or at least sha sums, if you really think this is the best way to distribute software.
We run our blog on Ghost (<a href="http://blog.commando.io" rel="nofollow">http://blog.commando.io</a>), and honestly not sure there is much wrong with the node.js implementation. It can handle insane traffic, gzip, expires headers already supported. You are correct, it does not support https, but you could either run nginx in front, or modify the source code a bit.<p>I do love the idea of just copying a single binary (thanks go) to any server and running Journey. Is Journey's editing/writing interface up to snuff with ghost? Support for tags, SEO metadata, full markdown support, image upload?
About theme compatibility between CMSes of all kinds, I wrote a post at <a href="http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/programming/reusable-pure-css-themes/" rel="nofollow">http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/programming/reusable-pure-css-themes...</a><p>And I have a initial implementation of the thing I envisioned at <a href="http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/classless/showcase/" rel="nofollow">http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/classless/showcase/</a>
Hi, this is really cool.. I'll admit to having never heard of or used Ghost, but I applaud the effort of building this to learn a new language. There is also a hidden value many people underestimate in having a project that is quite similar to others but in a different language.<p>I'm really curious about your Lua integration. I had also not previously heard of gopher-lua. How has your experience with this been?
Excellent read, going through the source code this afternoon. How did you work the theme compatibility with Ghost: api?<p><i></i>Worth pursuing?<i></i><p>Yes, can you make money on it? maybe depending on demand. There's always a market for well designed tools, especially if you could make it, <i>'the key tool'</i> to create and prototype themes.
Does it need a database? I see no such information. But, the Github project says<p>> high priority goals are support of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Google App Engine.
Looks cool. Tried on Alpine Linux and no worky:<p>jb:~/web/journey_blog$ sh journey<p>journey: line 1: ELF4LS�4: not found<p>journey: line 10: syntax error: unexpected word<p>and using bash:<p>jb:~/web/journey_blog$ bash journey<p>journey: journey: cannot execute binary file<p>jb:~/web/journey_blog$ ls -ahls journey<p>11716 -rwxr-xr-x 1 jbrown jbrown 11.4M Apr 28 21:25 journey
this is very well made. i was hoping to make something like it - but way (way!) more minimal. here is the first draft - <a href="http://adombic.appspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://adombic.appspot.com</a>