effort

I am finding I like the effort of making a post here--and the thrill of a single missed tag ending or slipped up markdown going live before I see it when using my most frequent workflow--it's enough to feel intentional without being obstructive. It's got rough edges I can smooth down through repition and modification^[1] to really hit a lived-in pattern while being familiar enough to not feel intimidating. I do note the increase in effort makes me feel less like making quick, once sentence posts or lil goofs, which makes sense--if I'm gonna go into the effort of adding an 11ty frontmatter section and titling and timestamping the post, it's immediately less off the cuff. Looking at it another way tho, I think this means any small sillies will actually matter more, since the ratio of setup to post is that much more weighted towards setup. much to think about.

For the record, my most well-trod post method so far:

• come up With a Post
  • this may start with "I feel like posting"
  • it may also start other ways
• pull up samsung notes app on phone
• add 11ty frontmatter (triple dash enter enter triple dash)
• add title and date (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm-05:00) to frontmatter
• write post
  • optional: proofread post
• give samsung note title (using underscores instead of spaces), place note in samsung note folder named "website"
• export note to .txt, save in documents/posts for website
• rename .txt to change to .md
• upload directly to main branch in github, no comment on commit; ride or die baybee
• github action automatically kicks off to run 11ty and push output to neocities api
• admire post once it appears on website
  • optional: go back and edit the file on github to fix the markdown and/or html mistakes

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