Series./blog.sh v1.7

./blog.sh 1.7 is out. The page that writes a post on a phone now publishes it too, and it finds out what happened rather than being told: it mints a receipt before sending and asks the site for it every three seconds until the answer comes.

Beside it, the other half of the same idea — changing what a post is without opening what it says: its series, its tags, its type and three flags, from a screen. Then a link card written in the front matter, about fifty drawings a tag can wear, a video repacked on the way in so the reader does not wait for the whole file, and seventeen fixes.

#blogsh #ruby #staticsite

The post is written on the tram: a title, four paragraphs, two photographs with their descriptions. The switch above Send says Draft, which is what it says unless it is moved. Send, and the answer card comes back with the preview address. Then it sits. Putting a draft out was a command, and a command wants a terminal, and the tram has none.

1.6 asked for that decision at the wrong end: publish at the moment of sending, before the blog has rendered anything, or see the blog's own page and then find a keyboard. 1.7 closes that, and then closes the road the answer takes back.

One file, down the same connection

The answer card for a draft now carries a Publish button. Pressing it sends one file, called publish.txt, holding the slug and nothing else -- through the same share sheet, the same two shortcuts, the same SSH connection the post itself took.