02-10-2025
Still deciding on my approach
So what I know is that I don't want to run a rendering server. I just want pure file server to serve my new blog. And I also don't really want to leave iA Writer, and then fiddle with frontmatter on top of my writing. I don't really want to deal with git as well after I am doing writing. I want the pristine text to just end up on my new blog / series of writings. This is not that complicated to do, but the software developer in me wants to make it a project. I could very easily just setup a FTP directory where the post files would end up and then run eleventy builder periodically, but that wasn't enough for me. I also could have just use my prototype Micropub implemenation to write the files to the filesystem from where all the stuff could get built from. But nope, that is seemingly not my style, I am looking for something even more elegant.
I want something dockerizable, and also working from the file system, should be easily deployable, etc.
I have hacked on this even before, in April, May. But then point I went with iA Writer + Ghost for driftlog, using iA Writer's publishing features. But I wanted to give it another shot. When what I really should be doing is write more instead of fiddling with all this.
Let's see how long I can hack tonight and where I get to!
Update 0049 Next Day
Enter WebDAV
So I ended up with WebDAV. On my iOS devices, Owlfiles works with it and integrates with Files app, and seems like iA Writer is working reasonably well there as well. I still can not use the iA Writer's native file browser to add the WebDAV directory, however. It's a reasonably nice setup. And it's secure, over technologies I am used to, such as HTTPS etc. Not the deluge of confusing FTP standards. I guess sticking to WebDAV is a reasonably decent idea.
What am I going to do with it?
Now that I can use WebDAV basically like FTP. Now the question is, what should the next part of the experiment will be.
- One single file, with windowed time to edit. Once the window is over, it's published. To satiate my unhinged writing sprees.
- Multiple files, each file it's own post, hard mapped for edits.
What happened to MicroPub?
I really don't know if I should pursue the micropub idea. That is essentially the same as writing with Ghost + iA Writer. Nothing wrong with that, but I wanted to not have another server running, specially when all these technologies are available. The WebDAV works with nginx. But MicroPub is a very promising as a technology standard. But the whole point was to get out of the blogging model.
I guess we will see. Time to get to bed.