Post #143225

2026-01-19 01:17 UTC

📝 I wrote about my current answer to an often-invisible aspect of blogging (maybe especially blogging with a static-site generator) — “What’s your setup?” What tools are you using? How do you go from idea to draft to published post on your blog? https://multiline.co/mment/2026/01/my-blogging-setup/

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@ashur@front-end.social 2026-01-19 01:18

(There are no wrong answers! ☺️)

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@ashur@front-end.social 2026-02-01 04:04

I really dig @samwarnick@mastodon.social’s take on adding blog post images from the command line — very clever features! 💫 https://samwarnick.com/blog/just-testing-things-out/

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@conlan@mastodon.social 2026-01-19 01:39

@ashur@front-end.social Do you use any special Markdown setup/extensions in Nova?

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@ioflow@sea.wavelight.ws 2026-01-19 03:34

@ashur@front-end.social i write with textedit and nano/pico, build with hugo, publish with rsync. very basic and minimal. no mobile or remote workflow; everything is local and offline until published. sometimes i’ll jot down a few notes on mobile, or use ulysses for longer sections, as it’s easier to resume writing when stationary. i’d like an iOS version of textedit for notes and drafts with my post template, syncing to pick up where i left off.

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@amxmln@mastodon.design 2026-01-19 17:11

@ashur@front-end.social My go to static site generator is Astro, even though my current website is still built using Gridsome (what a blast from the past! 😅). Otherwise, I tend to keep my content in Markdown or JSON files and edit them through @mattrbld@indieapps.space, my headless CMS. That’s also takes care of how to write content on the go. Mattrbld commits everything into my repo which either calls a webhook or starts a CI pipeline depending on whether I want to build the site in my own server or not. 😊

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@glass@typo.social 2026-01-19 23:17

@ashur@front-end.social I wished my setup was more exciting. I write in the Wordpress block editor, preview in a new tab, then edit from that tab and forget, making changes before overwriting them from the original tab. That said, I just bought a domain for a work project and used Cloudflare which has a rudimentary feature where you drag a folder of HTML through the browser and deploy. Got me _very_ intrigued by modern workflows and your description is most helpful to see!

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@lynfox@aus.social 2026-01-21 00:25

@ashur@front-end.social My blog has 2 main purposes: 1. To leave a record of my genealogy research and my life for my grandchildren (or theirs). 2. To teach myself some php. So I write drafts on a text editor. Including a short introduction in a separate .txt file. Add html p tags around the paragraphs. Drop the result into a .php template file containing basic html with php includes for all the static bits of the site, footer, header, navigation etc Add a line to a CSV file that acts as my 'database' with date title of page, file name. Test it on my computer. Upload it to a personal domain hosted by my aus.social admin. "Simples" It's at lynfox.au if anyone is interested.

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