Aug 1, 2026

$ ./blog.sh add

From an empty terminal to a shareable draft, uncut.

One take, fifty-seven seconds, no commentary and no cuts. A phone with a folding keyboard, and ./blog.sh running over SSH on the screen behind it.

What you're watching:

  1. ./blog.sh with no arguments — a menu, arrow keys, one-key answers.
  2. add opens the editor. The post is Markdown with a tiny frontmatter on top.
  3. Saving builds the draft and deploys it to a hidden preview URL — which is where the video ends: the same draft open in a browser on the desktop, and then on a tablet.

That ending is the point. The draft is already a real page on the real site, behind an unguessable URL — reviewable from any device that can open a link, shareable with anyone you want feedback from. The one step the video doesn't show is a single menu choice — publish — after which the announcement toot goes out on its own.

No admin panel logged into, no step you couldn't do over SSH from a train.

Two footnotes for the sceptics. The real-time pace is the argument — that's why there are no cuts. And the whole wizard degrades gracefully: run it in a pipe and it falls back to plain line prompts with no escape sequences, so everything you just watched can also be scripted.

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