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Sorry if it seems misleading. The shared page here isn't actually the front page, but rather something little I show when the user clicks the little question mark on the bottom right... so the links where hacked in manually.

In retrospect, this wasn't the best idea, since the links also break the "quotation" functionality on the page. Lesson learned ;)

Oh nice, I really like this. Especially the transition between markdown, and the rendered text. Will be interested to see where you go with it :)

Ooh, These are good insights! (nimblenotes is great too!) Perhaps it would be possible for me to save the ZenPen output as markdown (compressed) and then re-assemble it into html on load... ideally avoiding sneaky man-edited html all together.

Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Medium is a neat blogging platform with a focus on good quality content, although it is currently in its early stages and invite only.

The main concept in medium thats inspired me here, is their wysiwyg style editor (https://medium.com/about/df8eac9f4a5e) over markdown... although mine is a tad more minimal, I'd be lying if I didn't say they had a big influence on ZenPen.

I think he's referring to adding links when you're writing, much like you would bold, and italics. As it happens, its the first ticked I'd created in github - https://github.com/tholman/zenpen/issues/1

Yeah you're spot on. I'm trying to think of a way to solve this... but really trying to avoid having a back end/storing anything at all, though I'm not sure what else to do, if not through url's

If the url is less than 2000 characters, goo.gl (google's url shortner) will work, and that makes it much more sharable... but for bigger writings, I'm at a loss.

An export function would help here, but in the end, sharing from ZenPen.io would be preferable.

Open to any suggestions :)

Heya, creator checking in. Surprised this popped up on HN so soon after release (or at all). Although this is exactly the type of feedback I'm after.

I've started looking into scanning, and stripping js/malevolence from the content ... just haven't got around to implementing anything just yet.

That said, the project is only 2 days old, if anyone is interested in contributing its all open source: https://github.com/tholman/zenpen

It actually checks for flash support, and removes any flash websites from the potential list... so its a good experience all-round.

Is this really practical for the average front end developer. Appart from the dev tool upgrades (which are awesome, I'll admit) I only forsee spending extra time fixing features that may exist in canary, but aren't supported by other browsers. Rendering differences between different versions of chrome and general browser degradation problems.

You seem like a smart guy, and I really like your writing style... but why use the flakey Svbtle clone... you can do better than that :)

Pretty poor investigative journalism in my opinion... No testing, or planning to scope them out... just one email, and he can "honestly say" that they don't do it. Weak.

A while back I made a little interactive demo to get my head around how beziers work... why stop at 5 points ;) - http://tholman.com/experiments/html5/bezier-curve-sim/01/?q=...

"Designed and coded by: cwpStudios.com" - Can't say that helps your cause :S

Its subtle, (and webkit only) - but the tiles tilt back based on where you click/tap them -- just like the windows devices. Try clicking on the corner one?