markjgsmith

Cool things about my new blogging tool

There are a lot of cool features in my new blogging tool. Here are some of the top of my head:

1. Render anything, from individual posts to full blown websites.
2. Integrates with the writing tools you already use today.
3. Templates for pages but also file paths, for maximum flexibility.
4. Automatically generate frontmatter for your markdown files.
5. It‘s agnostic so you can use any template rendering engine.
6. Supports partials and cross engine calling.
7. Add functionality using toolpacks accessible from inside the templates.
8. Blueprint based workflow engine you can use to create assets of any shape.
9. Attach logic to templates to explode out many output files from one input template.
10. Run javascript middleware stacks at key places in the render pipeline, integrate with anything.
11. Transform data on the way in before it hits your templates.
12. Extreme debugability, easily see how data flows through the render pipeline.
13. Integrates with Github for atomic and batch review and approve based publishing workflows.
14. Dispatch rendered assets to external destinations with custom deliveries.
15. Easily cleanup your local workspace with custom cleaners.

There‘s a lot more too.

It‘s the fastest way to get from idea to published, completely remove all the tedium from writing online.

I‘m using it right now to write all my posts. Each one gets it‘s own git branch, automatically and uniquely named. You can bulk push all your branches to Github, and then the workflow side picks up and your content goes through a PR based workflow, each item can be review and approved, or auto-merged.

Seems to be working pretty well so far. #