Am I the only one who thinks it's weird to be writing blog posts inside a web browser? What's wrong with a text editor? Is it just the "publish" button? Or do people find it actually helps the writing process itself? (It doesn't for me, I edit my blog posts locally and push them with rsync when they're ready to publish.)
I currently use Jekyll + GitHub Pages. The work involved in correcting a one-character typo is annoying if I'm on my laptop, but nigh-impossible if I'm on my phone.
Can't you just edit the file directly on Github? It's what I did recently with a one word typo I noticed while I was out of town and only had my phone.
By "text editor" I meant a text editor running on my local machine, something like emacs or vim or gedit (or KWrite/Kate, which is what I actually use since I run KDE).
I can see wanting to edit across multiple devices, sure, but that doesn't require an online editor, just an online location for files--something like Dropbox, or if you're concerned about keeping your data really private, a server that you control access to and can use to sync files. Then you can still use the most effective editor for each individual device, instead of being stuck inside the online editor's lowest common denominator.
Right, but what if you're borrowing a computer. I completely agree, it's more private, but it might lose some of the ease of use.
I think a bug rain that things like Statemic and other databaseless systems are popular is because they kinda offer the best of both worlds: they have the online editor, and command line-less interface, the popular content management systems; and they have some of the simplicity of today's static site generators, namely the use of a simple markup language, and a last file system.
I see the appeal, and have visited considered building my own, but haven't because my existing Jekyll/custom python systems work fine for me right now.
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Am I the only one who thinks it's weird to be writing blog posts inside a web browser? What's wrong with a text editor? Is it just the "publish" button? Or do people find it actually helps the writing process itself? (It doesn't for me, I edit my blog posts locally and push them with rsync when they're ready to publish.)
I currently use Jekyll + GitHub Pages. The work involved in correcting a one-character typo is annoying if I'm on my laptop, but nigh-impossible if I'm on my phone.
Can't you just edit the file directly on Github? It's what I did recently with a one word typo I noticed while I was out of town and only had my phone.
I find the quality of my blog posts improve when I write them in Google Docs first rather than attempting to write them in Drupal's CKEditor.
By "text editor" I meant a text editor running on my local machine, something like emacs or vim or gedit (or KWrite/Kate, which is what I actually use since I run KDE).
I don't use an online editor, but the main advantage I see is that it makes editing across multiple devices really easy.
I can see wanting to edit across multiple devices, sure, but that doesn't require an online editor, just an online location for files--something like Dropbox, or if you're concerned about keeping your data really private, a server that you control access to and can use to sync files. Then you can still use the most effective editor for each individual device, instead of being stuck inside the online editor's lowest common denominator.
Right, but what if you're borrowing a computer. I completely agree, it's more private, but it might lose some of the ease of use.
I think a bug rain that things like Statemic and other databaseless systems are popular is because they kinda offer the best of both worlds: they have the online editor, and command line-less interface, the popular content management systems; and they have some of the simplicity of today's static site generators, namely the use of a simple markup language, and a last file system.
I see the appeal, and have visited considered building my own, but haven't because my existing Jekyll/custom python systems work fine for me right now.