not half baked! almost well done. ;)

Medium like means that it mimics the style, UX, usabilty like inline editing ... using the great stuff out there like mediumish theme from wowthemes. The wonderful medium-editor.js which gives you the capability to edit the articles inline. The backend is served by PythonOnWheels. The superb tinyDB is used as a small simple, local full python DB.

git clone https://github.com/pythononwheels/medium.py.git medium

pip install - r requirements.txt

python server.py

Everything else works online just as you know it from medium.

You can see the inline medium like toolbar right there. You can also see that the selected text is currently formatted as H4. The code, pyhton and js buttons format code already prepared for highlight.js (right code class="", p and br removed ... after copy & paste)

This is also the demo article included in the bundle. The edit options on the left are only visible whe you are logged in.

Play around with the usable online Demo.