Writing blog posts on the go
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By design, and to introduce intentional friction, I am only allowed to blog with a laptop. A new post necessarily involves a git commit of a new markdown file.
Lately I’ve been experimenting with writing blog posts on the go. From my phone, I simply open the Notes app and start to write.
Text (and hypertext) is the only medium I need. The occasional markup is also fine.
It is harder to write technical posts on the go though. This is not necessarily a caveat: it means I can focus instead on writing non-technical posts, like this one. This is akin to how non-fiction books are better suited for audiobooks than fiction ones. Sometimes form (and medium) shapes content.
The draft notes are then eventually transcribed to Markdown and published.