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diff --git a/blog/notes.markdown b/blog/notes.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0b0fb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/notes.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: "Site Update: Notes" +date: 2022-07-31 +--- + +I write a lot on social media. As a side effect of doing this, I don't really +have ownership of anything I write there. This means that things that I write on +Twitter are difficult for me to keep a local copy of. As of the time that I set +up RoboCadey earlier this year, I have written something hilarious like 1.4 +megabytes of text into Twitter. That is enough to fill an entire 3d printed save +icon. + +I want to [own my platform](http://www.alwaysownyourplatform.com/). As such, I +am going to be experimenting with adding ["Notes"](/notes) to my website. These +notes are something between a tweet and a blogpost, but mostly I want to be able +to control the destiny of what I write. I've implemented a system that allows me +to write up little notes on Apple Notes and then post them to my notes page over +Tailscale. + +I will make these notes visible on Twitter and Mastodon via +[POSSE](https://indieweb.org/POSSE). + +I use an iOS Shorcut to post things to my notes. Here's a screenshot of its +"source code": + + + +And that's it! This lets me push notes to my site and I can also attach a +"reply-to" link with another shortcut. This lets me write out something in Apple +Notes and then hit the share button to inflict my opinion onto the world. + +This stores everything in SQLite and lets me update these things on the fly. +Normally to update things on my blog I have to add the thing to the repo and +redeploy it. When I was on Linux most of the time this wasn't a real issue. I +could easily just commit, push and deploy without too much hassle. All this +Twitch streaming and content creation that I've been doing has made it a lot +harder for me to work from Linux. As such, I've been mostly booted into Windows +until I need to deploy my blog again. + +I can push, update and delete notes on the fly without having to touch the Linux +side of my tower at all! + +I'm thinking about making my main blog content also work like this, but that +will require some more careful thinking and possibly writing an emacs plugin or +two in order to bridge the two sides. It'll take some thought, and I plan to +talk out designs [on Twitch](https://twitch.tv/princessxen) at some point. |