And we’re back! I had high hopes for this at the beginning of the year, and I rapidly ran into a major hurdle. I replaced my primary laptop. Despite Obsidian and most of my regular apps being portable, the publishing workflow for this was anything but. I couldn’t figure out how to move it over to the new machine immediately, and rapidly got too busy and moved on. That meant that the hurdles to put out new content were now two-fold:

  1. Fix the publishing workflow.
  2. Write something new and publish it. That was just too much. So it sat on the back-burner as almost half the year flew by.

I finally decided to tackle problem 1 today, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that in the meantime obsidian-headless has entered public beta, which looks like it can fully replace my weird GitHub workaround. I’m working on making the publishing part of this work exclusively on the web-server, as much as possible, so I can write from any client device without needing the full workflow baked in. So far, so good. Maybe this will lead to me sharing more thoughts?

I also had to add a new ruby script and do some tweaking to make that internal link work above, as the jekyll file structure and the markdown file structure from obsidian are slightly different. Now it should happen automatically, same as I did with the images. While I am happy I have gotten this working, this process does at times remind me of this XKCD.

Though my goal here isn’t to make a perfect blogging tool, but rather to make a tool that reduces friction to something I’ll actually use. I’m happy with finicky startup costs if the cost to write a new post is as easy as type something up in Obsidian. At least… hopefully? We shall see.

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