Chyrp was/is amazing. It's so great to see that this project is still alive. When I first set up a Chyrp site around 2010 I had intended to start blogging, but was never happy enough with any of my entries to make them public so I kept it private.
I used Chyrp for several years as a private journal, until I switched to TiddlyWiki and eventually building Obsidian. Now that I do have a public blog I often come back to some of those old drafts I wrote in my Chyrp days, and have polished and published quite a few of them.
I remember loving how low-friction Chyrp was, both to write and build themes/plugins for.
Omg someone else who used TiddlyWiki! I used it for a while, and even rolled my own server because I didn’t like theirs. I’ve also moved on, but I never hear about others using it.
TiddlyWiki is truly a hidden gem nowadays. For anyone curious about how far you can take it I recommend reading "Grok TiddlyWiki" and checking out the author's public TiddlyWiki.
Thanks, I am going to read that. I used TiddlyWiki many years ago. I have been using Zim but Tiddlywiki might be a better fit for project specific notes.
I've been using TW daily as my work organizer for several years. I also wrote my own server so it would handle backups and allow asset uploads that could then be linked from within the TiddlyWiki (mostly for screenshots). I agree that there seems to be only the tiniest of communities around TW, so it's always nice to meet a fellow fan.
It's a wonderfully hackable platform that you can make truly your own. For example, I was a bit frustrated that it didn't have a streamlined way to add new entries to a log. So I wrote a macro that provided logging functionality, tie that to a button that I added to the UI and I had exactly what I wanted in ~50 lines of code. It feels a lot like extending Emacs. I do wish they were a better keyboard shortcuts throughout, though.
Oh hey! Just want to say thanks for obsidian. Just opened your app a second ago to write my notes about Miyazaki Airport, where I'm at. Works great on mobile.
Oh Chyrp. I have quite some memories of this. That project is what motivated me to make a PHP version of Jinja which ultimately became Twig. I can't even remember why, I just vividly recall that it was the time where a lot of cool open source development happened on IRC and Chyrp was a pretty clean PHP codebase at the time when PHP wasn't seen as being particularly pretty.
It's nice to see that after all these years, Twig is still around, though obviously been rewritten many times over I'm sure.
Chyrp was my first "microblog" and I loved it, it showed me a lot of what you could do with conventions and simple content. It definitely inspired me to look more into web development and coding in general.
The really impressive thing here, to me, is how fast all the pages load. It might be a location thing (or good caching?) but it's noticeable even when I click away to sites like Wikipedia - which aren't generally slow!
I know speed isn't everything, and the content on a blog is more important than just getting the bytes out ASAP, but it's nice to see software that seems able to provide both content and efficiency.
I was thinking about moving my blog from Wordpress to something lighter and simpler. I was thinking of a static site generator, but this looks like a compromise option to me.
Can anyone tell me whether there are any tools to migrate content? Any downsides to beware of?
I used Chyrp for several years as a private journal, until I switched to TiddlyWiki and eventually building Obsidian. Now that I do have a public blog I often come back to some of those old drafts I wrote in my Chyrp days, and have polished and published quite a few of them.
I remember loving how low-friction Chyrp was, both to write and build themes/plugins for.