Weblog.sh – hosted blogging from the command-line

https://github.com/hmngwy/weblog.sh/blob/master/lib/ssh/exec...

      else if(command[0] === 'password') {

        if(args.length===0) {
          stream.write('→ You need to specify a password.\n\r');
          stream.end();
          return;
        }

        var hash = require('sha256');
        var payload = args;
        var salt = schemas.randomString(32);

        userMeta.user.hash = hash(payload + salt);
        userMeta.user.salt = salt;
        userMeta.user.token = schemas.randomString(64);

        stream.write('… Saving new password'+LB);
        userMeta.user.save(function(err, saved){
          if(err){
            stream.write('→ Password update failed.'+LB);
          }

          var response = [];
          response.push("→ password for "+saved.username+" updated"+LB);

          stream.write(response.join(LB));
          stream.exit(0);
          stream.end();

        });

      }

First impressions are not good.

• scp very slow; doesn't work

• vim scp:// doesn't work

• emacs tramp[1] definitely doesn't work (scpx says invalid command; ssh, scp and sftp methods say "EDITOR SOON")

I noticed you're using ssh2js[2], but not using its built-in features for getting the public key from the client.

I think this would make a much better experience than asking for a password (that you don't echo, don't confirm, and annoyingly don't reset the terminal state afterwards).

I also think you should look at getting the sftp subsystem working as it is simpler and much more reliable than scp.

I hope you fix these things because I'd like to try it again.

[1]: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

[2]: https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2

And yet I'm pessimistic it'll get that funding. I just don't know if it's possible to make money writing software like this.

If you want a similar solution, but self-hosted, here's another commandline blogging system contained in a single bash script: https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog

Besides that i really like the idea. Reminds me a little of the old-style BBS communities. Even though i understand that people need to make money, a project like this would gain much more from being open source. It would give more people the possibility to run a service like this and everyone would profit from further developments.

But that's up to you, and i'm absolutely fine with people making money from webservices! :)

I'll give it a try in a week or so. Hopefully the problems will be fixed.

IMO the only thing missing is the ability to tag your entries. Maybe the site could parse a markdown tag entry in the file. Something like:

# _tags_ #

programming

c++

network