Writing a WriteFreely client from scratch

January 21, 2026

It has been three weeks (from now) since I last touched the Yuki project, yet another one of my countless experiments with client-server software, not to mention pointless at first, because it used to be a limited ActivityPub client...

...until I took notice of go-writefreely

Go client for the WriteFreely API [work in progress] Last commit made 8 years ago

Sadly, even with all that, it was not even close to being what it claimed to be (heck, it still had Write.as specific code), and I had nothing better to do but to fork it, with surprisingly good results.

I've just finished about two hours ago, testing over and over, with this instance (otherwise I might have been blocked by any other public instance around).

What do I mean by finished? Simple, I don't intend (at least for now) to add anything new features or whatever to this program, while bugs will continue to be fixed (if found).

There are some details I might correct though, so there's that, but the client works, and I'm writing from it, which is what matters.

I ought to contact the WriteFreely creator at some point after this.

That is all.

[March 2, 2026]: Repository URL has been updated