I'm getting close with the Public Folder project. Here's the concept. If you can get it running on your desktop, you can have any number of simple-to-write publishing systems running there too. It takes care of exactly what's needed for a person to publish without any opinion about the software you use to do the writing or rendering. #

Dropbox was quite close to the idea of Public Folder, but once it became popular they pulled back from it. As I understand it, if you created your account after 2012, you didn't have a public folder. I did, because I was an early adopter. It was good, but had missing features, which I lamented here on this blog many-a-time. If only they had seen Dropbox as a publishing platform, but they didn't. They finally turned the feature off on Sept 1, four days ago.#

Another precursor of Public Folder was upstreaming in Radio UserLand, released in 2002. PF should be a lot more efficient and powerful, but that said, upstreaming was pretty good, and Radio -- through upstreaming -- was one of the pillars of the early blogosphere, and an interesting web product as well. Radio had a CMS built in. This time around I have created that as a separate module. I'm pretty sure any static site generator that runs where Node runs will be compatible with Public Folder. #

One more thing. There's a placeholder site for the project, and there will also be a public GitHub repo, and more. ;-)#

I put flowers on my blog today to honor the life of Ted Rheingold, who died yesterday. Cancer. He wrote about it on the web, of course. A natural-born blogger. Apparently Ted asked for a new laptop sticker, and it's a good one. Looks like a clematis flower with a simple message -- Enjoy Every Day. #

What we used to call tweetstorms are now call threads, and they're huge. There is no better way to post a thread than Electric Pork, a Mac app that chops a blog-post-length tweet into a beautiful thread, written by yours truly, the author of this humble blog. 💥 #

Another huge hurricane is bearing down on the US, and the best our president can think to do is deport decent young Americans.#