I have been trying to figure out what I want to do as far as writing. I am drawn by the siren call of setting up my own blog software that would let me configure it the way I want to work with my wirkflow. But I am haunted by the thought that a fair number of blogs that start on WordPress and then go away from it seem to show a decrease in posting after the move.

I feel like if I could go all in on WordPress I could do a lot move writing, but I don’t love the experience of using the web based editor, and all the packages I have tried to let me do posts outside of WordPress and then publish them to WordPress seem a bit finicky about how they handle the source of truth and local caching behaviors.

I could probably write something that would work with the WordPress Rest API and let me treat the WordPress instance as the source of truth, but let me pull down a single post to edit it and then update the post on ‘save’. That way I am not trying to deal with keeping local copies in sync.