Thursday, February 12, 2015; 2:58:22 PM Eastern
Something fun I whipped up
- I have a new writing tool I'm working on and wanted it to be easy to create beautiful essay pages from it, like Medium. But Medium doesn't have an API. So I made an essay-viewer that has one. ;-)
- http://myword.io/
- Now, I'm not a great CSS hacker. That's obvious. But all that's needed is a framework to get started. That's the idea.
- I'm going to keep iterating over it. I really like the way it feels. And if you have any ideas on how to improve it, please feel free to fork. ;-)
- #### How to make an essay of your own
- 1. It's not pretty. :-)
- 2. You have to type in a technical language called JSON. It makes sense and it's pretty simple, but it's also exacting. If you misplace a quote or a comma it will fail. If you've been thinking you want to learn to code, this would be a very easy way to start. (Another way of saying that programming isn't easy.)
- 3. You must have a way of storing a file in a public place with an http:// address. I like to use the Public folder in Dropbox.
- 4. Start with one of the example JSON files, for example this one.
- 5. Edit it, and upload it. Suppose the new address is this: http://someaddress.com/my.json
- 6. You can get myword.io to display it with this URL:
http://myword.io/url=?http://someaddress.com/my.json
- That's really all there is to it!
- #### An example that works
- http://myword.io/?url=http://liveblog.co/misc/demo.json