Blogging with Obsidian

The Problem

I tend to barf out all my ongoing shenanigans into the Stick Nodes beta testing Discord server, but I'm starting to wonder whether the others there are getting a little bit tired of it 😅.

The Solution

I combined:

• Zola: static site generation
• Zolarwind: Zola theme
• GitHub Actions: builds the Zola site
• Obsidian: comfy markdown editor
• GitSync: Android app for easy syncing between a remote git repo and a local folder

Which gave a me very nice way to write blog posts:

Then once I'm done, I just close Obsidian and click GitSync's sync widget and wait for the site to update with my changes.

The full flow looks like:

1. Sync to GitHub blog_content repo
2. blog_content repo GitHub action dispatches an event to my vincetheprogrammer.github.io repo
3. vincetheprogrammer.github.io repo GitHub action rebuilds and publishes using a fresh checkout of the latest blog_contentrepo
4. It's live!