Announces Rook

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+title: Announcing Rook
+date: 2024-04-08 19:53:00+0000
+description: I've open sourced the code that powers this website
+tags:
+    - code
+    - rook
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+Back in 2014 when I was starting to hone my PHP skills, I had the idea to make my own website publishing product. I didn't mind if no one else could use it, I just wanted it to work super well for me so that I could write on [my own wall](/) from anywhere. I called it 'Rook' and I think [Mike](https://murch.me) was actually able to get it running for himself too at one point.
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+10 years later, I'm still scratching my own itches. This time, I wanted to give it to everyone so more people can become indie web publishers. Here it is:
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+![First screenshot of Rook](/static/posts/images/rook-1-screen.webp)
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+**What's Rook For?**
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+1. Hosting your own combination website and blog (like this one!)
+2. Boils web publishing down to two concepts: Pages and Posts. Pages are living and can be updated regularly (ex. /about). Posts are your blog posts and are served at /blog/post.md .
+3. Runs on a server that you control on your domain. You can see and modify any of the code if you want to, or just stick to changing `config.yaml`.
+4. Uses [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) for all post and page content.
+5. Uses FTP (or SSH if you prefer) and hot reloading. Just drag and drop `.md` files onto your server to publish.
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+You can read more and find out how to [run it yourself here](https://github.com/davidhariri/rook). Please enjoy!
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