Show HN: Pagoda, a Zen-mode Jekyll blog editor

  • I only had a chance to gloss over it but it looks great. I love the fact that it uses Jekyll and not rails like Obvtse.

    Can you use Jekyll plugins?

    Does it output a static website?

    Is it possible to write the posts using mark down instead of the web editor?

    Not so much a question but a suggestion, you should have a version of this hosted on AWS/Heroku so people can see it live.

  • This looks very nice, I think I'll be using this to write my blog posts in the future. Just one whinge: Jekyll 1.0 now has support for a _drafts folder. You might want to consider using that instead of 'published'.

  • This looks great, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Thank you!

  • This is great. I started working on something very similar to this a few weeks ago. Your project is much more mature, so I may end up contributing.

  • If you had this as a hosted service, I'd sign my clients up for it!

  • So I guess "Zen" is SF-hipster for "simple" now?

  • wish I wasn't such a noob. good job on the typography and thanks for contributing.

  • Very cool.

  • This is awesome!

  • <rant>

    This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool.

    I use a custom aspell dictionary for writing in German.

    I use a word count status bar.

    I use dumb vim aliases to correct "fro" to "for".

    I have aliases for unicode symbols.

    I have a single bash function that does the editing and push on save.

    Isn't my dumb solution better than yours, for me atleast ?

    WTF is so zen about full-screen ?

    Why aren't you solving real problems for bloggers, getting heard in a sea of me-too's, separating advertisers(propaganda) from truth.

    </rant>

    edit: Grammar based correction. I'd pay for that, having corrected some just now :)