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Fabio Cevasco
Personal blog · h3rald.com/articlesprogrammingwriting
Fabio Cevasco writes H3RALD, a personal blog at h3rald.com about programming and writing. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “LiteStore – self-contained, RESTful, NoSQL document store powered by a SQLite”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fabio Cevasco's site for small open-source tools he wrote in Nim, such as HastyScribe, LiteStore and Deadsimple, usually as simpler alternatives to bigger tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
H3RALD - Fabio Cevasco's Web Site
Most-linked posts?
- /hastyscribe/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-26
- LiteStore – self-contained, RESTful, NoSQL document store powered by a SQLite2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-27
- Programming languages worth checking out2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-08
- Show HN: HastyScribe – a CLI tool to generate self-contained HTML documents2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-26
- The H3 Microframework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-22
What Hacker News says?
Pandoc is amazing and immensely useful. Just in case you need something simpler, let me suggest Hastyscribe. Statically compiled cross-platform program for convertng markdown to self-contained portable HTML with a nice styling embedded by default. Simple, small, fast, hackable, written in Nim. https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/ https://github.com/h3rald/hastyscribe
Comment linking /hastyscribe/
on “Pandoc”Submitted Programming languages worth checking out as a story · 197 points
HN discussionNice project! It looks pretty similar to my own LiteStore: https://h3rald.com/litestore/ The feature set is pretty similar, but I focused mainly on the free form/nosql-ish aspect of it, and although I added support for server-side JavaScript middleware I didn't include authentication OOTB (although it could be implemented or you can integrate with an OAuth2 system - it can validate JWT tokens). And yes, LiteStore's…
Comment linking /litestore/
on “Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file”Submitted Programming languages worth checking out as a story · 70 points
HN discussionHere's most of the stuff that I built myself (and that I still use on a regular basis): - fae [ https://h3rald.com/fae ] · a minuscule find and edit utility - h3 [ https://h3.js.org ] · an extremely simple javascript microframework - hastyscribe [ https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe ] · a professional markdown compiler - hastysite [ https://hastysite.h3rald.com ] · a high-performance static site generator - herald [ http…
Comment linking /nimhttpd
on “Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?”Submitted Programming languages worth checking out as a story · 34 points
HN discussionFor my personal projects I find particularly satisfying using my own stack: - https://h3rald.com/litestore if I need a RESTful searchable data store and some relatively simple middleware logic. - https://h3.js.org if I need to write a single-page application and I just want to get things done fast. - https://hastysite.h3rald.com if I need a static site generator. - https://min-lang.org for more complex things. It to…
Comment linking /litestore
on “Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?”Submitted A pizza with Randal Schwartz as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI beg to (partially) disagree... (shameless plug ahead!) https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm OK, you are right that ordinary markdown is insufficient because a lot of functionalities are missing for proper technical writing and above all proper content reuse... That's why in my tool I started from an already fairly-advanced Markdown flavor (Discount) which already comes with a bunch of proprieta…
Comment linking /hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm
on “Don't write documentation in Markdown”Submitted InLine - a 100% Ruby solution for console inline editing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI agree 100%, but more than anything for me was control : I had been using nanoc ( https://nanoc.ws ) for years and don't get me wrong, that's an excellent piece of software... but then I "left it" for a few months also because I stopped coding in Ruby for a while (and stopped blogging) .When I came back to it, I discovered that a new major version was out and I had to upgrade, potentially breaking quite a bit of th…
Comment linking /
on “ I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator”Submitted Book Review: Reflections on Management as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYep, SQLite is awesome. I did actually build exactly that: a document database powered by SQLITE [1], and it works well, especially considering that SQLite has built-in support for full text search and indexes for JSON content. [1]: https://h3rald.com/litestore/
Comment linking /litestore/
on “SQLite as a Document Database”Submitted 10 more programming languages worth checking out as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> [citation needed] Okay. The year is 2005. PHP5 was fresh out of the oven and most people were still on PHP4. From PHP's point of view, there's rumors of something happening in the Ruby community that will be big, and should be talked about [1]. Then Rails 1.0 drops at the end of the year. From this Slashdot thread [2] on the announcement you can gauge the contemporary reaction; comments detail the fact that Rails…
Comment linking /articles/rails-inspired-php-frameworks/
on “Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?”Submitted Show HN: LiteStore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey are features of the documentation system itself, here's a simple example of macros: https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm#Mac... Basically it's like defining simple functions with parameters. And here is a section about transclusion, which is a fancy tech writing word to say "include text from another file": https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm#Tra...
Comment linking /hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm
on “Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?”Submitted LiteStore – self-contained, RESTful, NoSQL document store powered by a SQLite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am "eating my own dog food" in the sense that I am currently using two projects that I developed specifically for that: - HastyScribe[1] -- an opinionated markdown compiler that supports advanced features for technical writing like macros, fields and transclusion. - HastySite[2] -- a highly customizable static site generator based on HastyScribe and min[3], another project of mine (and a pretty deep rabbit hole to…
Comment linking /litestore/
on “Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?”Submitted Show HN: HastyScribe – a CLI tool to generate self-contained HTML documents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooks very similar to something I made a while ago[1]. SQLite is an awesome piece of software, and with JSON and Fulltext search baked in is ideal for these kind of things. Glad to see that people are finally realizing it! [1]: https://h3rald.com/litestore
Comment linking /litestore
on “Show HN: Squirrelbyte – a SQLite-based JSON document server”Submitted Glyph 0.5.0 released (Document Authoring Framework) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome links I've saved. That said, there's no accounting for taste: https://tylr.fun/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440123 https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-suffers-from-a-digital-petr... https://vpostrel.com/ https://h3rald.com/ https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/boring/ http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html https://moxie.org/stories.html https://trevorklee.com/my-terrible-plan-for-reducing-opioid-...…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?”Submitted Introducing the Ruby Compendium as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck LiteStore as bonus you have api included https://h3rald.com/litestore/ https://github.com/h3rald/litestore
Comment linking /litestore/
on “Ask HN: What is the SQLite of nosql databases?”Submitted Book Review: Leading Lean Software Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile I understand the point that the article is trying to make, i.e. that no "standard" markdown offers sufficient features to write documentation, I don't think that it matters too much as long as the final result is good. I always wanted to write manuals and documentation in markdown (or any other lightweight markup language for the matter) but not even a specialized flavor of markdown was able to provide all the…
Comment linking /hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm
on “Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation (2016)”Submitted Project: Glyph - H3RALD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSimilar to my own LiteStore project ;) Project Page: https://h3rald.com/litestore/ User Guide: https://h3rald.com/litestore/LiteStore_UserGuide.htm
Comment linking /litestore/LiteStore_UserGuide.htm
on “Show HN: SQLSite – serve simple websites, APIs and files directly from SQLite”Submitted Introducing Glyph - A Ruby-powered Document Authoring Framework as a story · 2 points
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