kfdm, 3 months ago

@webology I'm also tempted to move my blog from Hugo to a Django hosted blog where I can experiment more, but I keep over thinking things XD

I like writing markdown in a local text editor, but that doesn't work as easily if I'm on my iPad and want to save it in Git.

I've thought about trying https://github.com/andrewgodwin/yamdl or figuring out if there's some kind of 'common' blog API that I could implement 🤔

webology, 3 months ago

@kfdm I think I'm a free afternoon away from moving mine.

yamdl is a nice tool. I have used python-frontmatter for so long, it has a few advantages if you haven't seen it before.

I mostly want to be able to sync from Obsidian (which would work on iOS/iPadOS) which is doable with an extension. Until I figure that out, I'll probably just use a python script and a django ninja api endpoint or two.

webology, 3 months ago

🎉 I am also happy that my last writing day was during one of my weekly writing group sessions that @treyhunner and @bhumi let me join a year ago. We have been doing this for over a year.

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Please let me know if anyone else is interested in returning your writing tools to Django (or whatever platform)

I plan to spend some weeknights and lunch breaks fiddling with that over the next month or two.

I am happy to have a group to discuss it with and share discoveries with.

tbaxter, 3 months ago

@webology I have this probably dumb idea to set up django locally as my authoring interface and having it output 11ty templates (mostly markdown files) for deployment. I'm not sure it makes any sense, but I kinda just think I could make it work so then i want to try.

webology, 3 months ago

@tbaxter See https://mastodon.social/@webology/112016513193010774

And thank you for volunteering! 😉

What you describe is similar to a project I started with Django during the pandemic.

I had it mostly working, but I had nothing but time then. I am happy to share some notes if you hit a snag.