JustWriting – Markdown blog system

I like the philosophy behind Markdown: you write a simple text file and this is your article. If you want, you can fire up `pandoc` and convert it to HTML to make a nice website. Then, make it a PDF for constant rendering.<p>I personally started using Markdown as well for my website. I have a simple Makefile that finds `*.md` files and convert them to HTML using pandoc with some custom options. I can edit files very simply with vim instead of an online editor bloated with Javascript.

I have a hard time understanding someone starting a new PHP project in august 2014 and choosing CodeIgniter.

This seems perfect for all my non-technical friends who want to blog. Maybe a local WYSIWYG text editor that converted to markdown would be the perfect complement for anyone who doesn&#x27;t know it already. That, or maybe they should just learn markdown haha.

How does this compare to <a href="http://calepin.co/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;calepin.co&#x2F;</a> ?

Here is a great list of a bunch of open source static site generators - some geared toward blogs and some to generic sites:<p><a href="https://www.staticgen.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.staticgen.com&#x2F;</a><p>(not my project, just a happy user)

Im happy with <a href="https://github.com/blogist/blogist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blogist&#x2F;blogist</a> using gist as backend i can even use org mode to write blog

Hahaha. I&#x27;ve been writing this <i>exact</i> thing myself on-and-off for the last couple of weeks. This does literally everything I wanted my own project to do. Oh well.

Compare to Prose <a href="https://github.com/prose/prose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prose&#x2F;prose</a>:<p>- uses Jekyll. CMS-free. Does blogging. also Markdown based, but additionally supports HTML formatting<p>- host your own web server, or use GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages is for free and you get GitHub&#x27;s superb traffic capacity and uptime. <a href="https://pages.github.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.github.com</a><p>- GitHub instead of Dropbox for storage, collaboration and versioning<p>- host your own Prose instance, or use <a href="http://prose.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prose.io</a>