Examples
blog | list | blog source | official blog
Create your account with Public-Key Cryptography
We don't want your email address.
To get started, simply ssh into our content management system:
ssh lists.sh
After that, just set a username and you're ready to start writing!
You control the source files
Create lists using your favorite editor in plain text files.
~/blog/days-in-week.txt
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Publish your posts with one command
When your post is ready to be published, copy the file to our server with a familiar command:
scp ~/blog/*.txt lists.sh:/
We'll either create or update the lists for you.
Terminal workflow without installation
Since we are leveraging tools you already have on your computer
(ssh
and scp
), there is nothing to install.
This provides the convenience of a web app, but from inside your terminal!
Plain text format
A simple specification that is flexible and with no frills.
Features
- Just lists
- Looks great on any device
- Bring your own editor
- You control the source files
- Terminal workflow with no installation
- Public-key based authentication
- No ads, zero tracking
- No platform lock-in
- No javascript
- Subscriptions via RSS
- Not a platform for todos
- Minimalist design
- 100% open source
Philosophy
I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and publish lists. There is no installation, signup is as easy as SSH'ing into our CMS, and publishing content is as easy as copying files to our server.
Another goal of this microblog platform is to satisfy my own needs. I like to write and share lists with people because I find it's one of the best way to disseminate knowledge. Whether it's a list of links or a list of paragraphs, writing in lists is very satisfying and I welcome you to explore it on this site!
Other blogging platforms support writing lists, but they don't emphasize them. Writing lists is pretty popular on Twitter, but discoverability is terrible. Other blogging platforms focus on prose, but there really is nothing out there catered specifically for lists ... until now.
Roadmap
- Ability to have multiple accounts with one key
- Support nested list
- Support
gemini
protocol for viewing blogs - Support
text/plain
as a content-type for web server - Ability to upload images
- Ability to have custom domains