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How I Write Online Articles
John Papa ・ Apr 1 '19 ・ 4 min read
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yay, most of it is similar to my workflow :)
I tried so-simple for GitHub pages, and I am more than okay with it so far
I need to change a few things for front matter (been lazy enough to not automate, maybe someday) between GitHub pages and Dev.to, and I always use preview as sanity check - like have I forgotten some change, rendering (found two bugs so far), etc
will check out style and diction, feels like it will be helpful
This is awesome -- I am installing
style and dictionright now -- what a cool toolYeah, I'd never heard of those before but I'll definitely try them out.
Glad you like it Ali!
I have a similar workflow. I use Vim almost exclusively but I do switch to VS Code for the Markdown preview - I didn't realise there was no standard for it though.
I often use the spell checking in Vim:
:set spell!to toggle on/off. I often have to:h spellto remember all the commands butz=on a word brings up a list of suggestions and]smoves to the next bad word.I have written my own site a few times but switched to Jekyll a year or two ago because the less of my own code hanging around doing stuff the better and any features I want are just a Gem away.
This made me laugh as I switched from Jekyll to writing my own site a year or two ago. I think it was the Liquid tags that did it - found the syntax confusing and occasionally magical.
TBH I still think I could do it all with Pandoc and a few scripts, but I CBA to work it out right now.
Always.
@mortoray I see that there are several people who may want to use your mdl thing!
I'm working on it. It's almost far enough to do all my posts -- exception the latex bits.
Will now have to read your posts about writing a Markdown parser - thanks!
Very cool! I'm also blogging with vim + github. Made an MR on your githubs for some links on your main readme that weren't working for me
I've been trying out 100% markdown with the github static pages and then copy and pasting to dev.to.
Could you say more about what :%y+ does?
I've been :!pbcopy on my mac to copy out, but I have a feeling your thing does that too, without clearing all the text?
SURE!
:- start command mode%- with the whole buffer...y- yank it to...+- the register called+.The register
+is the system clipboard.Thanks for the explanation! Registers are on of the vim things I haven't fully incorporated into my workflow
I'm thinking of doing something similar, but my only question is: How do you manage drafts? Do you push them to GitHub or do something else?