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Writing from anywhere

How the browser editor works, and how to post from your phone.

There are two ways to publish here, and you can mix them freely.

The browser editor

Go to /admin on your live site. Sign in with GitHub, write a post in the visual editor, and hit publish. Behind the scenes it commits a Markdown file to your repository, and your site rebuilds automatically. This works on a phone, which means you can publish a thought from a train, a queue, or a hotel lobby without opening a laptop.

Plain files

When you are at your desk, you can skip the editor entirely. Add a .md file to src/content/blog, fill in the frontmatter, write, and push. Same result.

When you want something interactive

Rename a post from .md to .mdx and you can drop a live component straight into the prose, a small chart, a calculator, a working demo. The rest of the post stays ordinary Markdown. That is the one real advantage of this setup over a plain blog, and it costs you nothing until the day you want it.

Keep the writing first and the machinery quiet. That is the whole trick.