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Automating the most annoying aspects of blogging


Back in 2021 I had a look around and decided to base this incarnation of my blog on an open-source Jekyll theme called “Type”, though I’ve changed and added ...

Back in 2021 I had a look around and decided to base this incarnation of my blog on an open-source Jekyll theme called “ Type ”, though I’ve changed and added so much it’s quite some distance from the original as it stands today. Multi-carousel support (14 Jul) Automatic transformation of local images urls to CDN urls (19 Aug) Automatic smart quotes in post titles (19 Aug) Added OpenSearch to allow searching blog from address bar (15 Sep) So I took a closer look at what is involved in me creating a blog post and made a list of the most repetitive, awkward or error prone tasks:

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