Last year I started blogging again. I've tried several micro blog platforms like bear and micro blog.
While those platforms lower the barrier to write a blog post from anywhere, they didn't stick.
Afterwards I created a new static blog using astro. But I didn't write that many posts because I cannot access and publish from where I want. I need to push to git to deploy.
I recently discovered Pico.sh Prose and it's a refreshing, simple way of managing a blog. In some way it's going back to basics.
Prose just provides a way to sync (rsync) files for your own user (registered on their platform by using your SSH key).
To write blog posts you create markdown (.md) files and rsync them to Prose. That got me thinking...
So I've set up an Obsidian vault to manage this blog.
Together with syncthing all markdown files (managed in Obsidian) are getting shared between several devices. Like this I can edit from my desktop, laptop and mobile. My syncthing LXC container on my proxmox host also gets a copy.
I've written a script on that syncthing LXC container to watch the posts/ directory. When content changes, a callback script with the rsync command is triggered and a new publish is done.
Instant edit, instant deploy to the blog!
Just like that, by gluing the pieces together I have a platform that suits my needs. And it's a lot of fun!