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wrttn.in · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
wrttn was a minimal writing site made by an HN member, with posts on design, patents, Sublime Text and web development.
What HN saysHN mentions it as a similar, now defunct publishing service, with one commenter pointing out an XSS hole through custom CSS and another having saved its essays.
17HN people shared it
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- 11B0495d1 people · first shared 2010
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
quanticle · 2016-04-11
The thing I worry about with sites like that is that I never know whether they're going to be here tomorrow. There was another site, http://wrttn.in, which seemed quite similar, but is now defunct. If I hadn't saved some of the good essays from that site, they'd be gone forever.
rubyrescue · 2015-04-23
This is similar to http://wrttn.in, which a HN member created.
kmfrk · 2010-11-30
Another similar project is http://wrttn.in/ (it's a royal pain to spell). Is it true that tidypub really has no admin link to edit the original post from?
Sephr · 2010-07-06
You need to improve your XSS protection. Here's an example page I created where I do XSS through the CSS: http://wrttn.in/214018
In the admin page, you should be able to change the type of markup the content is in (be it Textile or Markdown) and the CSS. Also, I haven't tested it; if you don't support Markdown Extra, add support for it. The best library that I recommend for this is Discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/)
_delirium · 2014-01-21
...digitizing is a boon, make your smart move and switch to Google Drive or Dropbox. Now the good part about this is, you can have all of your gazzlion files on the cloud and access them from anywhere. The better part is you can have all of them indexed!
For ephemeral stuff this is fine, but I'd be really wary of this "digitization solution" for data that matters and what you might want to find some years down the road. This kind of ad-hoc digitization has caused a lot of problems, from documents that simply don't exist anymore, to documents that might exist somewhere but not anywhere anyone can find them. Paper isn't a great solution, but most of the stuff I've actually lost has been digitized stuff on some server or service that disappeared. If you're a bigger company in particular, I'd treat it as an archival problem worth having a proper solution for (perhaps even an in-house archivist whose actual job is managing it).
Vaguely relevant, a cautionary tale that was making the rounds a few years ago: http://wrttn.in/04af1a
eataudio · 2010-07-06
Heh, I like it :D
http://wrttn.in/b0495d
Seriously though, it's nice! I can see myself using this in future.