Blogging on Paper (2017)

I thought it the predecessor of this https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website

where someone writes blog posts on paper and trained an ai to scan the handwriting and post it online.

*Dropbox Paper

Or you may use Obsidian with Syncthing and write notes or blog on any device.

Seems a bit overly complicated for a blog, no? Like there's a HUGE middle ground between like "blogging on pager" and "posts in Markdown using vim, generating HTML using Jekyll, and serving the content via a small web app in Go on Heroku."

I use AWS Amplify with JS - sometimes React, sometimes Svelte - (although there's plenty of alternatives) and you can easily make it this simple.

1. Write post in markdown.

2. Push to git.

Done: it will appear looking perfectly nice as a blog post. Basically only his first step: "write posts in Markdown using vim".

For a moment I thought it was about a tech bro discovering diaries, but it’s about Dropbox Paper.

This is why generic names for products / services are such a bad move - I did blogging on paper while in jail. It's called a journal. Now when I get my resources together, I'm going to scan those 300 or so pages and upload them to Medium and transcribe them digitally for easier reading.

Obviously "Paper" for this guy didn't work if we're reading a post from 2017.

And no, even with the tablets provided by Tarrant County Corrections, blogging was not available.