About 2 and a half years ago, I found a repo to add Micropub support to my blog with Netlify functions. Since then, my blogging setup has changed maybe a dozen times or so.
Today, I'm back at it. I've deployed a new Micropub server so that I can publish drafts from iA Writer—my favorite editor.
Here's the process now:
- Write post in iA Writer.
- iA Writer sends images and post content to my Micropub server.
- The server processes the images and generates consistent frontmatter.
- Using the GitHub API, a new file is created in my blog repo.
- Using the
Locationheader, iA Writer then opens Pages CMS to the edit view for the new file. - Once I'm happy, publish the post and Netlify builds it with Eleventy.
It's pretty slick if I do say so myself. But is it complicated enough? Not enough points of failure? Well, I decided to make it more complicated by running the Micropub server on my Synology. I've stitched together a Docker container and access it with Cloudflare Tunnels. Seems to mostly work?
I decided to go down this route so I could automate a bit more about my post generation. Things like date, filename, etc. And, don't hate me, I'm experimenting with using AI. I'm using the Claude API to generate a suggested summary and suggested alt text for images I upload. I say suggested, because I have a chance to look over it before I publish. Having a server like this will give me more flexibility to automate parts of my workflow.
I already know I'm going to forget to update my GitHub API key and it will break. Excited to find what else I missed!