if you post a lot on cohost it’s almost certainly because you have it saved on your home screen and the work needed to make a new post is open the app and tap the compose button. you gotta make it just as easy to post on your own site! you’re not gonna use it as much if you don’t! it’s okay to spend way too much work up front ensuring the actual posting process is as seamless as possible, but it’s gotta be easy in the moment for you to go from dumb joke to posted dumb joke
I was able to parse it enough to see I could basically just drop a .md into a github folder and it would Post
This, of course, means no preview (or uh. rather. everyone gets to preview) when I do it from my android phone, but proofreading the formatted version is only for certain kinds of post, imo. I'm planning on setting some css for <img> so adding images will have a consistent enough look/I'll know what to expect for them and markdown around them accordingly.
This is still, in many ways, harder than a chost, but it is an acceptable compromise for me.1 I hope everyone can find a solution that works for them; I am honestly shocked my coding skillset has expanded enough to accomplish what's happening on my site right now, and floored I was able to read thru 11ty's docs and be able to go "uhm, yeah, ok, I think this means I can do x, y??? and maybe z????" and be correct.
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it's leveraging what I already had as the start for many of my posts: the pre draft quickly typed notes to self in the samsung notes app, plus my skill in markdown and one-off html tags. Which all balances out the rest of the steps being more work
