Blogging Workflow

What are the practicalities of producing this blog? Let’s dive in.

I wanted something very streamlined and simple that would make writing and publishing blog posts as easy as possible - very low friction.

I use Hugo to construct this site from some cobbled together templates and markdown files.
I write all my posts on my phone cos I’m lazy.
This is all enabled by the Termux app, which I love to bits.

workflow

• open termux and type cd path/to/my/blog
• hugo new 'Name of Post.md'
• write a blog post using markdown by editing the file content/Name of Post.md that hugo just made for me
• I use vim, but appreciate that is not for everyone
• aspell -c -x name/of/file (optional spell checking)
• hugo serve (optional, to render post to localhost if you want to see what it looks like)
• don’t forget to mark draft: false at the top (I regularly do)
• I type upload
• wait a few minutes
• the new post is live!

whats the upload command

well, you won’t have the upload command - but you can!
What it does is equivalent to typing:

cd blog/directory
hugo
git add .
git commit -m 'updating from phone'
git push

the first step is in case I forgot to do that.
the second builds the website.
the git ones push the changes to codeberg

you can make your own command to do this using a shell alias or script.

maybe that doesn’t sound very streamlined but it works really well and very quick and easy in practice :)