writeas — Notes and Useful Info

wa case-insensitive Search | Get a list of hashtags for a write.as blog. Put blog name in input box (e.g., jwc) not the full url. [source] cjeller1592 on glitch | cjeller1592 on github | blog.cjeller.site | All public posts that use a certain hashtag: https://read.write.as/t/blogging
Hashtags do not work in an anonymous non-blog post, but they are active in a blog post. For published posts on read.write.as, tags can be searched, e.g.: https://read.write.as/t/personal. Hashtags are active for blog posts sent out to the fediverse, grouping a blog's posts by similar topics, and adding hashtags to tweets on Twitter and cross-posts on Medium [source] RSS feed: https://write.as/jwc/feed/ | Tags have RSS feeds too. Just add /feed/ to the tag URL, e.g. https://write.as/jwc/tag:cosmology/feed/ (Note: the trailing / is apparently required with rss feeds for tags)

Anonymous Drafts in write.as and writefreely are private (but shareable) unless they are posted to a blog: https://howto.write.as/creating-a-draft

snap.as | snap.as v2 | snap.as API announcement | CSS styling images |

read.write.as articles: changes to multiple blogs on write.as plans | #howto articles |

Multiple underscores in a line does not work in MathJax unless you put an \ before the _. This works $y\_0$, $y\_1$ => $y_0$, $y_1$, but this does not $y_0$, $y_1$ => $y0$, $y1$ this is em tagged () | This is italic markdown (underscores delimited), it appears they're the same

Matt's github site | His website | His stmt on why write.as | One of Matt's blogs: In the Open from inside write.as |

Markdown Guide | Learning HTML and CSS in 2019 |

How to change the url of a post. This is sometimes useful. Move the post to drafts, then change the first line (which serves as the title line), then move it back to the blog. It's moved back to the same relative position (based on time).

HtmlHouse | We've disabled publishing on HTMLhouse due to an excessive number of phishing pages getting published. In the meantime, you can still use the editor to try out HTML and preview it in real time! As a reminder, HTMLhouse is free and #opensource software! You can always run it yourself and enable publishing on it. https://github.com/writeas/htmlhouse

In Ubuntu Firefox, a future dated post is hidden. In Windows, it shows with a 'scheduled' tag. So it's probably best to avoid future dated posts if you want them to show immediately on all machines. Also, if post font is sans-serif and custom CSS has only font-family: "Verdana";, on a non-Windows machine, a serif font is displayed. So to get sans-serif on all machines, do font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;

Markdown: Markdown Tables Generator | write.as link | MathJax is supported. | Write.as and WriteFreely markdown uses saturday which is a fork of blackfriday. The docs for MathJax support are here. This is in-line LaTeX rendered by MathJax: $\int \frac{d\theta}{1+\theta^2} = \tan^{-1}\theta+C$ lowercase lamba $\lambda$ and uppercase lambda $\Lambda$

Append .txt to the URL to see raw text of a post; .md for markdown

The html

tag works in write.as. Click me to collapse/fold.

WriteFreely info, setup, and config

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:15:57 +0000

Install WriteFreely with Apache and MySQL – WriteFreely / Installation – Discuss Write.as

Expanded, updated WriteFreely docs | WriteFreely links and about info | Data Format for WriteFreely Import — Matt's Dev Log |

to log in to WF you’ll need to create an admin account through the command-line interface, just like how you used it to start your instance. The command is as follows: writefreely --create-admin username:password

A Guide to Using Code Blocks on a WriteFreely Blog Page

Most detailed WriteFreely install instructions I've seen yet

The apache2 reverse proxy instructions for trilium are perhaps how it would be done for a WriteFreely install.

Matt: WF doesn’t officially support installation on a path like /abab. Recommended way to install would be to do it on abab.example.com, instead. source

Add /read to the end of a wf url to show an rss feed of all blog posts.

Differences between write.as and writefreely | very detailed WF review

Convert MySql database to Sqlite3, robloranger

About WriteFreely | WriteFreely blog | snap.as | Self-hosting (with sqlite or MySql/MariaDB) with WriteFreely | Where to host WriteFreely | Upgrading WriteFreely from v0.7.x + Download the latest release for your operating system. Stop running your writefreely service, replace all files in your installation with the ones in the archive, and then start your writefreely service again. + Make sure your database is backed up, and update it with writefreely --migrate. + No additional steps are needed to upgrade from v0.7.x. Follow the instructions in each previous # release if you're upgrading from an earlier version. [source]

Examples of write.as/writefreely blogs: Arnov highly scientific, math, plotting, python, bayesian analysis 5 stars: Scott Nesbitt's OpenSourceMusings blog Nate Dickson, beautifully designed Rob's Dev Log | MySql to Sqlite3 | install WF on Ubuntu 19.04 | paste server | Security: Harden SSH The New Oil Dino's Journal Created with WriteFreely blog.cjeller.site DigitalGyoza ianbgibson.com dlkr.blog | dlkr.art | dlkr.services | carrotcake studio aris.papatheodorou.net write.jonwatson.ca/blog lhl hub.fosstodon.org write.as/matt | Matt's In the Open about write.as QuietHabits Andrew Kemendo Using data from the Kepler mission to scientifically imagine star systems Jag Talon, a blog about learning and web development badrihippo Deacon Patrick Mind Your Head Co-op, Deacon Patrick TechZerker triptych

snap.as examples Deacon Patrick Self-Hosting Simple Install HowTo | Slightly Less Simple Install | WF setting for multiple blogs, single-user mode |

Get started with Linux/Unix-based instances in Amazon Lightsail | Choose an Amazon Lightsail instance image | AWS Management Console | LightSail Pricing | Where to host WriteFreely | More hosting ideas | Bitnami Lightsail setup | Amazon RDS is for managed database instances. You can't connect to the instance itself, only the database software running on it. You can't install anything extra on the running instances, or change any operating system parameters.

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Test Post

Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:41:20 +0000

a-test

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an html span tag test for green text:

here is some text of a bunch of a lot of so and so and then some and then even more than that so and so even more and more and more (Note: the span has to all be on one line or it won't work)

Unless you want a double-line, do not have a line-break before and after the span tag; i.e., the span includes a line-break itself.

Adding search (blog must be public; this is not working, nor does it work on a write.as anon post; is this duckduckgo feature working?):

Hashtags: #writeas