I have a blog that I don't write on at all under unresolvedconflict.com and I want to change that. Since I often have some thoughts while I'm out and about, I want to have something that makes it easy to blog (yes, I know, social networks can work here - but also I don't always like to get comments back on things). I tried Micro blog, and ultimately didn't really like it. The app wasn't to my liking and had too much fedi in it when all I wanted was a editor with a "publish" button.

So, today I set up the blog with Astro. Was able to render short posts and not render long posts. The micro blog will have both, and only the short posts will be rendered.

I deployed the blog and found a drafts action that posts to Github with a token ( had to edit it a bit: https://github.com/hhofner/drafts-to-github ). Added another action that posts frontmatter to my Draft note (see image). Now, just need to automate the frontmatter somehow.

I added some small code that generates the frontmatter for me. The blog requires a title and description and I think I need to remove those later, but for now, I am able to write something on Drafts (without frontmatter) and then press publish and it's on the blog! Woo-hoo, I am probably almost happy with this.

Also added a few things to the blog. Not much though.