Anil DashApr 26, 2024
One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS

Ever since I changed over from Wordpress to Ghost to power this site, I've gotten emails and replies asking me if Ghost is really good and worth making the jump from any other blogging engines. My answer is this: it's currently the least bad one out there, but it is

A Whole Lotta Nothing
Show threadGaëtan Perrault

@anildash @mathowie

Honestly, reading through this post, this actually feels like something more than a CMS.

This isn't just "management of content". This is an entire distribution pipeline. We have tools like this, see Hootsuite.

Maybe the world could use an OSS Hootsuite Alternative. I'm not sure, I don't post that much. But the moment you start metaprogramming your hosting tool to cross post to other hosting tools, you're now just building a new thing.

Apr 27, 2024 at 2:36amWeb