Features

• Post stuff of unlimited length using markdown.
• Emote support. Bring any emotes you wish to use with Notekins.
• Media shelf. You may attach media files to your posts (only images for now). Image thumbnail will be automatically generated to save bandwidth.
• Automatic Atom feed generation.
• Import archived tweets from Twitter with one simple command (not yet implemented).
• Default front-end is completely JavaScript-free.

Notekins isn't for you if you match any of the following ... (these are ruled out in the project planning phase as anti-features):

• Crave interaction from other Internet-dwellers. Notekins is designed to be a strictly single-user system without any support for viewer interactions. This include replying, "liking", and collection of visitor analytics.
• Need support for ActivityPub integration. Follows naturally from the last point
• Are capable of making multiple posts in a single second. Notekins use timestamps as unique identifier for posts.

Technical Information

Notekins has two major components: a local utility, and a server-side CGI executable. The local utility is written in Python, while the latter is developed using Rust. Your posts are saved in the way they are typed out. They are also consolidated into a "monolith" file and two accompanying index files, which are used by the CGI program.

The local utility is responsible for managing your posts. It can also help you setup new instances of Nokekins, publish your posts to your server, and perform a variety of maintenance tasks on the monolith file.

Deploying Notekins

As Notekins is still in its early stage, the instructions here might be outdated at any time.

(TODO)