[jyap]

I had this grand idea of re-working my personal web site and having it be redirected to a GitHub hosted instance. All very clean/elite and all. And I did set it up and made 3 posts...

But then I stumbled onto or more so realized that I had a road block. Namely that of practicality.

I mean it meant that I needed to be on the command line to actually post and I needed to run Git commands to add files/posts and then push to the server. I couldn't post from my cell phone or iPad. Most of my browsing these days is from my iPad.

I mean blogging from WordPress/Blogger isn’t as clean/elite but at least you can edit through the web as well as optionally via a separate application. So if the barriers to create are too high I may as well be using WordPress/Tumblr/Blogger.

I tested out Cloud9 IDE since it ties in nicely with GitHub repositories and covers the base of being able edit througth the web... But the workflow still didn't work. Everything besides blogging 'got in the way'.

If you want to blog like a hacker, start by writing content that doesn't suck.

If you want to feel elite and 'static HTMLy' about it, then:

  - Set up a simple content creation site that supports your content creation workflow best.
  - Set up your elite Jekyll site.
  - Set up a cronjob and a HTML parser which downloads and reformats your posts from your simple content creation site and feeds them to Jekyll.

[scottmcdowell]

I haven't tried it, but I believe one solution people have found for mobile posting to jekyll is keeping your _posts folder in dropbox, setting up a cronjob, then using Capistrano for deployment.

[jokull]

This is now a hosted service but with Pelican instead of Jekyll. Have a look at Calepin.co

[danneu]

I wouldn't be surprised if there already was a tool that deploys your posts to your Jekyll blog. If not, then it'd be a fun little project.

[jokull]

Someone should set up a jekyll hosting service that watches a DropBox share folder for posts.