Very cool! If it had existed a handful of years ago I probably would be using it. I started out using Forestry which was pretty cool, then was closed, at which point I decided to edit everything locally.

But I'll keep an eye on your repo. Good luck with it!

and the source code here: https://github.com/mazzzystar/tinymind

Imagine a image, not being saved, instead all you have is a tag-prompt - recreating the image on demand, if a older blog post is loaded.. Then again, how many fingers m i holding up?

With the solution presented it is all automatic on git push; I don't have to run the script manually. So, I think perhaps you've misunderstood some of the post.

You suggest doing an automatic upload (which could only be done from specific machines) and I'm doing an automatic download (to the target server, so changes can be pushed from any machine!)

Take a look at these, which provide exactly that:

1. https://docs.alto.so/mac 2. https://montaigne.io/

I build https://quotion.co just for this purpose, you can publish blog with just Apple Notes. Feel free to give it a shot

I haven’t used this service, but it does have some kind of integrated publishing feature.

https://standardnotes.com/

Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Then it's just a matter of writing an email from your phone.

I did an experiment with ChatGPT for this recently.

I run my blog using Django, and the Django Admin has a feature where you can construct a link to an "add post" page with query string parameters that pre-populate that form.

I set up a GPT (a custom ChatGPT with a system prompt) with these instructions:

    You help me write new items for my link blog
    by generating URLs to the Django admin that
    prefill the new blog entry form

    The URL you generate always starts like this:
    
    https://simonwillison.net/admin/blog/blogmark/add/?use_markdown=1

    Then you add more URL encoded pairs:

    link_title is the title of the link
    link_url is the URL
    slug is the URL slug used on my site - it
    should be the title in lower case with dashes
    instead of spaces and with stop words removed
    via_url is optional - it’s the via URL
    via_title is optional too
    commentary is the longest field - it’s the
    markdown for my blog entry. It should usually
    include more markdown links.

    I will paste in notes, you turn them into a
    link to this URL

    https://simonwillison.net/admin/blog/blogmark/add/?use_markdown=1&link_title=Zero-latency%20SQLite%20storage%20in%20every%20Durable%20Object&link_url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Fsqlite-in-durable-objects%2F&slug=zero-latency-sqlite-storage-durable-object&commentary=Kenton%20Varda%20introduces%20the%20next%20iteration%20of%20Cloudflare%27s%20%5BDurable%20Object%5D(https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.cloudflare.com%2Fdurable-objects%2F)%20platform%2C%20which%20recently%20upgraded%20from%20a%20key%2Fvalue%20store%20to%20a%20full%20relational%20system%20based%20on%20SQLite.%0A%0AThis%20is%20a%20fascinating%20piece%20of%20distributed%20system%20design%2C%20enabling%20a%20really%20interesting%20way%20to%20architect%20a%20large%20scale%20application.%0A%0AThe%20key%20idea%20behind%20Durable%20Objects%20is%20to%20colocate%20application%20logic%20with%20the%20data%20it%20operates%20on.%20A%20Durable%20Object%20is%20a%20code%20instance%20on%20the%20same%20physical%20host%20as%20the%20SQLite%20database%20that%20it%20operates%20on%2C%20resulting%20in%20blazingly%20fast%20read%20and%20write%20performance.

https://gist.github.com/simonw/3bb63ff855854c0bc7856567f7a5e...

I haven't been using it though, because it takes too long for ChatGPT to type out that URL one URL-escaped character at a time.

blogging from your phone is a sign if insanity.

I'm not sure what you mean? It simply lists existing tags from all my blog posts, so they've already got my seal of approval as I've used them before. I could add "number of times used", but I've not needed it. It's not synthesizing or hallucinating new tags from content. If I want a new tag, well, I think it up myself, though after many years of blogging it's not a common occurrence.

I think there's an example in the next line with YouTube being in italics

I agree. Here the use of SASS is inherited and I don't see much benefit in redoing it.

Because it’s full of people who think it’s great?

Seriously now, content mills like Medium and Substack are simply not appealing to people who want more control over how their site renders. Or in fact, who want any sort of control over their content.

I like my content in Markdown on my own git repository, thank you.

Glad you like it, but it's a million miles from my ideals. I want my content to be under my control and free to read without obstruction. My blog loads hundreds of times faster and uses far less bandwidth than a Substack newsletter blog.