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@pdbartlett @davew It would be very easy to post from #obsidian or #logseq to a #wordpress blog, on top of the built-in publishing systems.

@danielk @pdbartlett @davew What about committing your md file to Github and publishing directly using the Github Wordpress plugin?

@davew @danielk I'm going to try to start writing on a more regular basis (for realz this time!) so to start with I'm going to keep it simple as one of my failure modes is putting all my effort into the technology and ending up with no content :(

My initial thought for a combined storage and publishing solution was GitHub, but sounds like WP might fill a similar gap, and by the time I need it I might feel the need to treat myself to some experimentation time :)

@pdbartlett @davew I am just setting up the ActivityPub integration in my WordPress blog. Takes some getting used to, but works when it works.

@danielk @davew I've gone for writing in Obsidian (mainly), generating with Quarto and publishing to GH Pages: https://pdbartlett.github.io. It's still early days, and I'm still copy/pasting into the "little textbox" here, but other than that it's going okay. Must check if Mastodon has its own posting API (would be nice if it supported MetaWeblog ofc!) as opposed to interop via ActivityPub.

@danielk @davew Looks like not only is there a ReST API (not looked in enough detail to see how similar or otherwise it is to MetaWeblog) there are also some client libraries: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/libraries/! I see some automation in my future, esp. as Quarto has a post-render hook ;)

@davew no reason at all that I can see :) I guess the main challenge is having some low friction combos for people with great content ideas but (rightly) little patience for fighting with technical details.

@pdbartlett

that's the whole idea of the web. you can use any tool you want as long as it conforms to the very lightweight requirements of the web.

i wrote a simple blog generator for LogSeq myself, to be sure it could be done. :-)

@davew I think I've been burying the lede As a relatively technical person I know all these things can be connected, and like you I have tried a bunch of things more as experiments than anything else. As time goes on though, I'm more interested in "distraction-free" setups not in the usual sense that the UI is distraction-free, but in the sense that I don't have to delve into lots of settings, make tradeoffs I may regret later (and therefore feel obligated to investigate) ... [1/2]

@davew ... but just start using a toolset/ecosystem that is pretty complete out of the box, is pluggable enough to extend, has a decent community for existing plugins and support, but worst case I can write my own if I need anything too exotic. From your previous writings I get the feeling you care about this too, so was just interested if you had thoughts beyond your initial comment [2/2]