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GraphQL: A New Direction For Telescope Nova
A year ago, Telescope was at a crossroads: I felt like the codebase’s technical debt was piling on, and I was having strong doubts about the project’s future.
I briefly considered quitting altogether, but instead I decided to take a clean break with the past, and start fresh on a React-based version of Telescope, codenamed Nova.
Updating Nova To Meteor 1.4
Meteor just released the 1.4 update.
After pulling the latest devel branch and running meteor update, you might run into some NPM-related issues.
This is generally because the meteorhacks:kadira-binary-deps hasn’t been updated properly. You can...
Introducing Nova: a new kind of back-end for React apps
Over the past couple months, we’ve been busy porting Telescope from its original pure Meteor stack to a new, more powerful React/Meteor combo.
Moving Forward With Nova
I first wrote about Nova about two months ago. Today, I’m officially making Nova the main version of Telescope moving forward.
Building Apps With Nova, React, and Meteor
Although Telescope started its life as a Reddit-like app, it’s been inspiring to see just how far people have customized it.
Getting Started With Nova
If you’re curious about Nova and would like to contribute to the project, you’ve come to the right place!
Introducing Telescope Nova
In last month’s The State Of Telescope, I said I was taking a break from working on Telescope.
The State Of Telescope
I started working on Telescope a little over three years ago, in August 2012.
Two months later, I launched Sidebar – which is the product I originally built Telescope for – and then one month after that I officially open-sourced Telescope.
Telescope...
Read more…Customization Case Study: BJJBot
Lately I’ve been working on a new Telescope-based project, BJJBot.
Telescope v0.25.0 “FlowScope”
This new release features a few major breaking changes for Telescope. Make sure you read through!
Telescope Weekly #6: SubScope, Zeiss, FundingHunt, GroupHunt
What’s going on in the Telescope community for the weeks of August 2 - 16.
Telescope Weekly #5: Zeiss, Hosting Survey, DailyVC, GitXiv
What’s going on in the Telescope community for the week of July 27 - August 2.
The Screenings Launch: A Meteor Scaling Case Study
“Does Meteor scale?”
More than any other, this question has been asked since the framework’s early days.
How Telescope Uses SimpleSchema And Autoform
In this hangout, I talk about how Telescope makes use of two key packages, SimpleSchema and Autoform.
Telescope v0.22.1 “DebugScope”
Big new release for Telescope, with a brand new template debugging mode.
Telescope Weekly #4: Screenings, DebugScope, Package-Based Architecture, SketchTalk
What’s going on in the Telescope community for the week of July 20 - 26.
Telescope's Package-Based Architecture
Telescope’s file architecture is a bit different from other Meteor apps, as it’s 100% package-based. In this hangout, we delve deeper into what this means.
Introducing Screenings: Curated Design Videos With Telescope
I spent most of my time working on Telescope, which means I don’t often get the chance to work with Telescope.
Telescope Weekly #3: Debug Mode, Scopemount, Reddit vs Telescope, Bug Bounties
What’s going on in the Telescope community for the week of July 13 - 19.
Launching Your Own Reddit Alternative: Reddit vs Telescope
You’ve probably heard about the recent Reddit drama: a slew of unpopular decisions by Reddit management led to some major subreddits temporarily shutting down in protest, and many users voiced their intention to abandon the site.
Telescope Weekly #2: Subs Manager, Fast Render
What’s going on in the Telescope community for the week of July 6 - 12.
Getting Started With Telescope Customizations (Video)
One of Telescope’s strong suits is how flexible and customizable it is. Yet it can be hard to know just where to start.
Telescope Weekly #1: SlugScope, Zen Market, Ryfma
What’s going on in the Telescope community for the week of June 29 - July 5.
Telescope v0.21.1: SlugScope
Slugs, downvoting, more languages: tons of new features in the latest Telescope release!
Telescope Hangout #6
We haven’t had one of these in a while! This week, we covered a lot of upcoming features on the roadmap, and more generally discussed Telescope’s next steps.
Why You Should Use Telescope For Your Next Startup Weekend
You should seriously consider Telescope as a launching point for your next hackathon or startup weekend project.
Why? Because one team did just that, and their little weekend project went on being featured on several major mainstream news sites.
Telescope v0.20: RefactorScope
It’s taken a while, but the long-awaited Telescope refactor is out!
Previewing Telescope's Big Refactor
Things have been quiet around here lately, but that doesn’t mean Telescope hasn’t seen activity, on the contrary.
For the last few weeks I’ve been busy completely refactoring Telescope’s codebase. The refactor (v0.20rc) focuses on three main areas: a new architecture, new APIs, and new documentation.
This Week In Telescope #1
Lately there’s been more and more stuff going on in the Telescope community, so I’ve decided to start a new weekly column to highlight all that activity.
Welcome to the first installment of “This Week In Telescope”!
Telescope VS: A Comparison Of Community-Building Tools
Telescope’s mission is to make it easy for anyone to launch their own Product Hunt or Hacker News.
But it’s far from the only app in its space, and you might be wondering how it compares with other similar solutions. Here is a short guide to help...
Read more…Introducing Telescope v0.14.0: “GridScope”
Sometimes you need to spend some time refactoring, rethinking, and rewriting until you get a cleaner architecture and better performance.
And other times, you just want to work on a cool feature. This latest release falls in the second category,...
Read more…Building A Content Aggregator And Email Digest With Telescope
Telescope started its young life as a Hacker News clone, but it’s now become a lot more than that.
Today I want to showcase a really cool use case that can be implemented with no coding whatsoever: using Telescope to build your own content aggregator...
Read more…The Making Of CrunchHunt
CrunchHunt is a mash-up of TechCrunch and Product Hunt, built with Telescope.
If you’re not familiar with Telescope, it’s a free, open-source app based on the Meteor JavaScript framework that makes it very easy for anyone to create their own Hacker...
Read more…Telescope v0.12.0: “DummyScope”
The first new release of 2015 is a big one: lots of new features, refactorings, and overall improvements.
Telescope Hangout #4
Short hangout this week, where I covered what’s new with Telescope and answered a few questions.
Telescope Hangout #3: Forms, Ads, And Lots Of Questions
Another great hangout, with participation from the creators of the two biggest Telescope communities around!
Telescope Hangout #2: Search, SEO, and SCSS
Great hangout this week. We were lucky enough to have Slava Kim from Meteor drop in and share his views on a lot of topics, including SEO for Meteor and improving the package ecosystem.
Telescope v0.9.10: Internationalizing a Meteor App
The latest Telescope update solidifies a pretty important feature
Open Source Lessons Learned: Two Years of Telescope
I’ve been working on Telescope (an open source Hacker News-type app built with the Meteor JavaScript framework) for close to two years now, and along the way I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to make an open source project successful.
Telescope Academy
Lately, I’ve been hearing from more and more people looking to customize Telescope to their needs. In fact, Telescope-related job offers have even started popping up on oDesk.
Telescope v0.9.3 DailyScope
Meteor just had a big update, and so did Telescope! Read on to find out what’s new.
Telescope v0.9.2.6 InviteScope
Many small improvements. As usual check out the history for the full list.
Telescope v0.9.2 MailScope
The latest version of Telescope brings a lot of improvements, mostly on the email side.
Can You Help Me With…
As Telescope gets more popular, I’m also starting to feel the support burden more and more.
Telescope v0.9 “ModuleScope”
This is the biggest Telescope update in a long time, if not ever! Read on for the list of changes.
Extending Telescope with Embedly Thumbnails
Note: I’ve moved the contents of this tutorial over to the documentation section.
Read more…Telescope v0.8.2 “SchemaScope”
The latest version of Telescope brings some pretty cool stuff, and is one more step towards a flexible, lightweight Telescope. Here are the main changes.
Telescope v0.8.1 “FlexScope”
I’m still slowly hacking away at Telescope whenever I can, even if it does feel like trying to boil the ocean at times. But with the latest release, I feel like at least I’m finally boiling the right ocean!
Meteor 0.8 Update & Next Steps
I’m happy to announce that Telescope has (finally!) been updated for Meteor 0.8 and the new Blaze UI engine.
But besides that, I also want to take a moment to talk about what’s next for Telescope.
I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t done a...
Read more…Search & Internationalization
I’d like to talk about two new features that got recently added to Telescope, both of them the result of outside contributions.
One-Click Meteor Deploys With Giteor
Let’s say you’re curious about Telescope and would like to check it out for yourself with your own instance. The classic workflow would involve:
- Going to GitHub and getting the
git cloneURL. - Cloning the app locally.
- Deploying it to Meteor’s free hosting service.
Getting Started With Telescope
There’s nothing worse than installing a new app, only to be confronted by that familiar “now what?” feeling. So in order to help mitigate first-run fears, here’s a short guide on getting started with Telescope.
Building Email Digests with MailChimp RSS Campaigns
NOTE: THIS IS NOW OUT OF DATE. SEE HERE INSTEAD.
Telescope comes with built-in email notifications for new posts, which every user can turn on in their account panel. But receiving an email for every single new post might be a bit much, especially for very active communities.
So instead, let’s take a look at an easy way to send out daily or weekly digests of the latest posts, using MailChimp’s RSS Campaigns feature.
Introducing Telescope v0.7 “IronScope”
I’m happy to announce a very big update to Telescope [ demo | GitHub ].
Actually, this update is more like a complete refactoring, with over 80 commits that add new features and clean up the codebase. So let’s see what’s new.
