[dr_hercules]

Where precisely within the workflow of blogging do you think the kind of programmer you describe would appreciate using a terminal?

[krapp]

I wasn't talking about blogging specifically, but in general terms, having to use one for updating and deploying.

I could possibly imagine someone writing blog posts in markdown or plaintext and pushing them somewhere, but that would be the edgiest of edge cases, and even then a native app or web form would be more intuitive.

[dr_hercules]

and that's why your suggestion of missing shell involvement is not that much of a great point in this context of Wordpress

[mod]

I do all my deployments for all of my applications in a shell.

If I were actively writing a blog, it would be administered in the shell as well.

Surely the point was that the shell is unimportant for the vast majority of users, despite some HN missing its power.

[zachrose]

Piping stdout to a new blog post, of course.