This morning, I took inspiration from Rach Smith's Digital Garden , and decided to see if I could also style just my external links - with a catch. I'd like to try to do it on my own and not with an eleventy plugin.

The next piece in my blog workflow is to automatically commit new content and then push it up to gitHub where AWS can grab and deploy it. For that, I wrote a simple bash script:

I've ditched ChronoSync Express in favor of rsync and fswatch. With this setup, fswatch triggers whenever a file changes in my Obsidian vault blog folder and calls rsynch to copy over any new or changed files. The only thing I have left to figure out is how to start this up on login.

In my quest to improve my front-end skills, I have moved on to trying to optimize my CSS reduce the number of requests and total page size. I don't really want to use webpack, grunt, or anything similar. So, I decided to use postcss with a couple of plugins and a quick and dirty shell script to get the job.

I don't know why, but I strongly dislike writing content of any substance in a web-based text editor. It can be the slickest editor ever, with all the bells and whistles, but for some reason, It just doesn't feel right. I scoff at people who measure the snappiness of their local terminal app, but I probably shouldn't because I imagine latency has something to do with why I just don't enjoy writing real content online.