Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store

Posted by jonutah 10/26/2024

Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store(github.com)

103 points | 49 commentspage 2

bigs 10/26/2024|

Sounds interesting

convolution8 10/29/2024||

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dang 10/26/2024|

[stub for offtopicness]

Eikon 10/26/2024|||

What's simpler about this than just uploading .html files?

This seems actually very complicated for what it does.

simonw 10/26/2024|||

Just uploading HTML files won't teach you how to use Cloudflare workers and their KV store.

krapp 10/26/2024||

A "simple text blog" shouldn't need to use anything of the sort.

simonw 10/26/2024|||

Sure, but you're getting hung up on the link title and not the actual substance.

Imagine if the title was this instead: "Show HN: a simple text blog demonstrating how to use Cloudflare workers and KV store"

evbogue 10/26/2024|||

Would simple text chatroom demand the kv?

krapp 10/26/2024||

No.

evbogue 10/26/2024||

Yah, I guess you could use WebRTC or some other way of exchanging messages now that I think about it.

krapp 10/26/2024||

You don't even need realtime. You can get away with just having people POST to a backend, updating a database and letting people refresh the page.

evbogue 10/26/2024||

Why do all that when you could have the server write simple text files to the disk?

krapp 10/27/2024||

You need interaction for a chatroom, so you at least need a form somewhere.

evbogue 10/27/2024||

This is genius. But can we add an input field for the username?

deafpolygon 10/26/2024|||

I was going to say, just upload .txt

kissgyorgy 10/26/2024|||

How is that simple?

Simple would be if you would just write text files, drop it somewhere simple, either a webserver or GitHub pages or some hosted service, and be done with it.

yakshaving_jgt 10/26/2024|||

This is anything but simple.

lhousa 10/26/2024||

Suggestion: "plain text blog"

zeroq 10/26/2024||

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dang 10/26/2024||

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

zeroq 10/26/2024||

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bravura 10/26/2024||

It's quite a smear to write "He's probably unemployed at the moment or just brushing off before the next interview.". Cheap smears are a form of casual dismissal and devalue this site.