@kattni Well, I certainly wouldn't *recommend* doing it the way I'm doing it, if you have anything at all in the world better to do 😅

@yora @tinker The thing I don't understand about that kind of thing is... won't the client eventually realize they can get the same advice by directing their questions to ChatGPT? Like, ChatGPT isn't an advantage

@kusuriya I keep getting tempted into building up a little boutique maker business, but then I realize that business would largely be bookkeeping and trips to the UPS store while the machines do their thing

Pushed out a bunch of updates to my blog software just now, so I can more easily spew smaller ideas more often at it. I probably broke a bunch of things, but eff it we'll fix it in production

https://blog.lmorchard.com/

Wrote a bit about the changes here, in my new format!

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/09/new-blog-a-lot-like-the-old/

The really cool, dumb thing I'm trying is writing multiple blog entries in one markdown file with ASCII art scissors as the separator, like:

8<--- { "slug": "miscellanea", "time": "12:39:00-07:00", "tags": [ "miscellanea" ] }

I've really liked the notion of Jekyll / Blosxom style static blogs generated from piles of Markdown. But what I've never really liked is having to create a new file every time I have a wild idea - not a huge hurdle, but enough of one to be a drag.

So, what I can do now is open one file for the whole day in Obsidian and just kind of riff into it

https://github.com/lmorchard/blog.lmorchard.com/blob/main/content/posts/2025/2025-05-08.md?plain=1

Next thing I'm probably going to do for my blog is write some Rube Goldberg scripting to run on my NAS that pushes my daily blog markdown pages to github from my Obsidian vault.

I already have a Rube Goldberg system to sync my Obsidian vault between all my computers and my phone and my NAS.

So, this could just hang off the side of that and give me lazy blogging from everywhere using my own peculiar format

@skippy @gwcoffey Exactly like a micro blog except the hard way because apparently that appeals to my brain

@robhudson Well, there are versions of Obsidian for iOS & Android. They sell a subscription sync service that works between mobile and desktop.

But, I have a janky DIY setup using Syncthing and Mobius Sync to sync my files around

Hah, Rube Goldberg scripting success. Now I'm publishing to my blog with a cronjob on my NAS in the basement from sync'd files out of Obsidian.

https://github.com/lmorchard/blog.lmorchard.com/blob/main/script/publish-posts-from-obsidian.sh

In before I return to report how this has broken catastrophically and destroyed my blog.

One thing I will have to address on my blog is that I think it's building in UTC timezone in GitHub, so all the timestamps are wonky. But, whatever, I'll fix that at some point

@giflian Well, compared to my laptop being in PDT where I've been playing with things

Oh, another random thing I rolled out with this set of changes to my blog - I moved the tag lines that I rotate through in the header with a web component into a JSON resource

https://blog.lmorchard.com/taglines.json

@tankgrrl I like it!

https://github.com/lmorchard/blog.lmorchard.com/commit/9e39935a5afd69ae995fb3bbcbbaa49c903be13c

@tankgrrl That reminds me, I have to rotate my drives