Blogging Setup

cowboat
February 18, 2023

Now that I have a website set up, I wanted to make it as easy as possible to blog. I have a hard time convincing myself to write at all, and an even harder time putting it out there in the world, that I want it to be as easy as possible, or else it just won’t happen. For that reason, I really appreciate how easy it is to do with Publish.

When I want to make a new post, I usually write it up in Pages or Notes first, at least the outline for it. Then I just add a new markdown file in my website’s file structure, paste the writing in, clean up the formatting if necessary, and add any metadata or tags.

After the next build, the new markdown file automatically gets generated into an html page for the blog, and the blog updates with the new post. I’ll write more sometime about that whole pipeline, including the build and generation steps, but that’s a topic for another post. So far I’ve found this process pretty easy: just drop a new markdown file with the text in my blog folder and presto - it shows up on the website.