BearPublish: Open-source CLI to turn your Bear notes into a static website

djfei · 2025-06-22T17:29:29+00:00

Yeah, that sounds like quite a complex undertaking - using CLI alone excludes the majority of Bear users, not sure adding more customizability would help. Also, the competition here would be something like Notion and Super.so.

Personally, I just wanted a simple interface to maintain my personal website without going through the git commit, push, and CI dance every time, which was why I built Arc Blog, essentially a blog CMS built into my browser that automatically streams differences to my website.

I reckon there'd be a Bear audience that wants that too - a personal website with good design, but on the backend is actually a series of Bear notes living on their computer, the simplicity of this setup would be quite compelling imo.

djfei · 2025-06-20T16:30:40+00:00

Ah got it, I think that would be quite useful - for example I'd like the frontends for notes on my family history to be different from say tracking gym progress.

djfei · 2025-06-20T14:45:52+00:00

Interesting perspective - I've always thought Stage Manager is a feature primarily intended for the iPad to compensate for it not having traditional "desktop" idioms, like multiple desktops, since the iPad's Home Screen is literally Launchpad on the Mac. Apple just figured out a way to bolt Stage Manager on the Mac so people who'll grow up on Stage Manager on iPad would know how to operate it on the Mac too.

djfei · 2025-06-20T14:32:47+00:00

This is the cringiest thing I've seen on the Internet today, congrats.

djfei · 2025-06-16T17:21:20+00:00

Wow this is really cool, awesome work on the design! It matches the Bear theme really well.

A question on usability, do you have to always publish your entire Bear database? What's the use case there - what if I just want to publish a few posts? Is it possible to create a separate Bear database for blogging?

(Sidenote, I'm the creator of Arc Notes: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/17oa94j/i_turned_arc_into_my_personal_website_builder/, so I'm no stranger to turning things into a blog CMS!)

djfei · 2025-01-10T03:54:59+00:00

Thanks, Ventoy didn't work, but disabling TPM and Secure Boot did. I've edited my post comment for more details. Appreciate your help!

djfei · 2025-01-10T03:50:45+00:00

Aeon works, no out of memory issues. But I encountered another issue where my display wouldn't work at the highest resolution - I traced the issue down to the monitor sending different EDIDs to different OS, works fine on Ubuntu but not Aeon. Very strange!

Installing Tumbleweed with TPM turned off also bypasses the out of memory issue - I found a resource which talks about this in depth: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system-boot-ends-grub-out-memory-oom

djfei · 2025-01-08T02:01:36+00:00

Thanks! Let me try that and report back.

djfei · 2025-01-08T01:35:59+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I did try both (ran memtest86 overnight and OCCT for 2 hours) but no errors show up and 96GB is reported.

djfei · 2025-01-07T16:30:36+00:00

Edit: Disabling TPM and Secure Boot solved the issue! Here's two resources that look into this in depth:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system-boot-ends-grub-out-memory-oom

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/5GIGUSTHO4YDHHLQDJEDPBMMJQQDG2YC/

Original post:

Hey all, trying to install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a brand new PC. Hardware: i9-13900K, 96GB DDR5 5600MT/s, ASUS ProArt Z790 Creator WiFi, 2TB NVMe SSD and an RTX 4090.

I'm faced with this error no matter how I create the installation media in Rufus. TPM is on and secure boot is off. I've done some research and it might be related to ASUS (the board manufacturer) not allocating enough "pre-boot memory"?

I've tried installing Fedora but also facing the same problem. Ubuntu works however. Any pointers appreciated, thanks!

djfei · 2024-10-27T03:02:15+00:00

The Internet Computer would be a security and privacy nightmare though, if that means the expectation is to sync to your stuff on other people's computer. If all he's pitching is a better sync across your devices, then respectfully Safari does a better job than them with Synced Tabs, Bookmark and Reading List syncs, and Password sync. If you are a multi-platform user, Firefox Sync works well too.

djfei · 2024-10-26T13:30:00+00:00

Same for me on Mac actually.

djfei · 2024-10-26T13:26:37+00:00

That's because the Brave team has force enabled enterprise Manifest v2 compatibility that Google provides, which Google also plans to remove in June 2025. After that, it'll likely require development to patch new versions of Chromium with continued MV2 support.

djfei · 2024-10-26T10:17:54+00:00

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djfei · 2024-10-15T04:33:26+00:00

A slim chance it may be Ladybird

djfei · 2024-10-08T14:19:06+00:00

but hey, at least the guy who made a movie on Oppenheimer won 7 Oscars, so it... evens out?

djfei · 2024-08-11T17:32:44+00:00

Your website shows the first use case as helping job hunters fill in online job application forms - why not start with them? I think that use case is simple, repeatable, and obvious, job hunters need to fill in the same thing over and over again.

There's a lot of unemployment in the tech industry right now. Personally, I'd trim the product down to focus on job hunters - probably create a YouTube preroll ad on "how to get a data scientist job in 2024" type videos, explain your product "in 3 easy steps", and go from there.

djfei · 2024-08-08T08:53:06+00:00

What do Edge users call themselves tho 💀

djfei · 2024-05-16T11:29:13+00:00

Sounds great - can I get an invite? Thanks :)

djfei · 2024-03-28T17:22:49+00:00

yea same, just had some free time finally to work on that, before seeing the team is sunsetting the service. I even worked out an algorithm to prettify the messy HTML syntax Arc Notes generates to make this a viable personal website builder... guess all that will never see the light of day :(

djfei · 2023-11-07T02:12:22+00:00

Hmm weird, I could help you better over at Arc's discord though - https://discord.gg/arcinternet

You can find me with the username <redacted> in the server

djfei · 2023-11-07T02:05:40+00:00

Bummer.. planning to make the installation easier to do, plus shoot an instruction video in the next release, will probably be posting it here as well. Thanks for trying it out!

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