The Last Blog – Page 2 – may be the last time, I don't know

Hello, Buffer

we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

It seemed like a very simple idea. Org-mode already provided HTML rendering that worked quite well for static pages, and while the kits for WordPress posting use the dreaded xmlrpc api, with my server on the same LAN as the author, both behind a firewall, it seemed reasonably safe to give it a go. This would let me bring anything within reach of Emacs into my published works, and with all the lovely options of Org-Mode, while also enabling the wonderfulness of Fediverse presence, structured data and other perks of WordPress plugins.

That led me to Org2Blog as a candidate, promising your first post in 5 minutes, and while it took 15, the result was impressive.

Green cat eyes stare at you from the dark within.

Figure 1: do not stare into the void

So I tried a more complex example…

Everything was beautiful except…

(tap tap) is this thing on?

Ok, I know it’s on, and thanks to a helpful nudge it is a #Fediverse thing too.

Hello again, world!

What, another blog? Ok, well, this may just be the last one for several reasons, at least one of which is my age vs the average TTL of a blogging platform, only this time the blog is here, on my desk, running on a rpi4B, so it isn’t likely to include my posts from previous blogs such as https://blog.teledyn.com or https://teledyn.wordpress.com although I won’t rule out the latter, but imports never really worked, did they? WP made a total mess of my old Posterous site, and then BlogSpot made a final mangle taking from WP (because Posterous direct to Blogger wasn’t an option).