I have been inactive here for a while, but I have my reasons. I also have reasons to think I might be more active here starting this week. Deets dropping soon.
Well, for starters, my writing workflow sucked. My “CMS” was 100 lines of Go code that barely met the thresholds of both a CLI and a CMS. Suffice to say, it took a lot of effort to create, manage, and publish new posts.
Writing the actual post content was even harder. I use Vim (BTW), and while it was great for writing code without leaving the keyboard, it made me feel disconnected from the content. I had to use my notes or other text editors to draft the content, convert it to Markdown, create the correct file using the non-existent CMS CLI, and finally commit and push the file to GitHub to trigger a workflow in Netlify that spits out what you see (my blog setup).
All that and my limited free time meant my little corner of the Internet didn’t receive the care it deserved.
So what changed? Well, for starters, I moved to a new, proper CMS, Front Matter. It runs in Visual Studio Code AND can be tweaked and extended to fit even this mess I call a website.
Until now, every CMS fell before my mess, and I couldn’t do anything to clean it up. Too big but too delicate.
Front Matter seems to be my website’s Achilles heel. It took me just over a day to set up a productive environment where I could focus on the content rather than the code.
I will write a detailed blog post soon, but the takeaway is that dear reader, you will see more of me here.