Evolution of blog v2

[jonathanyeong]

Goal: Keep design largely the same, but make writing and publishing posts easier. Including the use of mixed media

New Astro features

• Any new features I should use?

Easier asset management (✅ : Obsidian cloudinary plugin helps with this)

Would be nice to host images elsewhere

Pain points:

• Images added to a blog post also need to be added to the repo and then referenced correctly.
• Images are currently stored in Github (src/assets)

Automated publishing workflow

Could use: https://tina.io/docs/frameworks/astro/

Pain points

• Writing in obsidian is a nice writing experience. But the content folder is a private sub repo. No automation when saving an obsidian post to when I publish it.
• What I see when writing a post does not look like what I see live. I need to check live previews which takes time.
• Extra hops if I want to do grammar or prose checking. I need to copy and paste it into ChatGPT and then refactor. It would be nice to have a browser extension to do it for me. Like LanguageTool
• I can write posts across devices but because publishing is manual the easiest way to publish is through my computer. Would be nice to write anywhere.

Feature requests

• Make posts searchable
• Ability to have certain posts link to each other (e.g. Part 1 of 4 in tutorial x).
• I'd like to add cover images and more visual assets (like videos) to posts.
• Easier ways to share my post? (not the highest priority)
• Read minute length on posts (✅ )
• Table of contents on a post

QOL

• I want to do an accessibility audit
• Check for any google indexing issues