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Textastic compile mac#

While I donвЂ™t expect to resume posting daily while working on the book, I expect the frequency to increase. This post is the first IвЂ™ve pre-scheduled with the new workflow - and I wrote it on my iPad.

IвЂ™m excited about the possibilities afforded by this new workflow. IвЂ™ve set up a second action that builds and deploys the site at 8:50 am every morning in case IвЂ™ve pre-scheduled a post (using JekyllвЂ™s future date feature.)

Textastic compile mac#

HereвЂ™s how it works: I write and edit posts on my Mac ( BBEdit) or iPad ( Drafts or Textastic) and push changes to GitHub (with the terminal on the Mac or Working Copy on the iPad.) The push kicks off a GitHub action that builds the site on their side and deploys it to my Dreamhost shared server. Instead of building on the Mac, it shifts the build and deployment steps to GitHub. The new process fixes these shortcomings. Still, I miss the ease of posting to WordPress, pre-scheduling posts (e.g., when going on holiday), and writing and fixing typos from other devices - especially the iPad. Of course, a significant reason for this is my current book project. IвЂ™ve gone from posting almost daily to as little as once per week.

Commit changes to GitHub (for source version control)Д®ach step takes a bit of time, and the resulting friction affected my frequency.

Sync the local site with a remote directory.

Compile the site with the command line Jekyll tool.

For another, you must move the resulting files from that computer to the web server. For one thing, youвЂ™re tied to building the site in the machine that has the compiler. ItвЂ™s great for security and speed, but there are downsides. Jekyll is a static site generator, which means that web pages arenвЂ™t built on-the-fly but compiled into static HTML files. In fact, IвЂ™ve been close to rolling back to WordPress a couple of times. IвЂ™ve documented why I did this and the apprehensions IвЂ™ve had since. To recap, last year, I migrated from WordPress to Jekyll. And, it can be given permission to keep SSH sessions open.

Textastic compile code#

Edit a file on the server using Textastic Code Editor 9 on the App Store. ThereвЂ™s a way to always connect to a tmux session in a terminal startup configuration. It took a bit of experimenting (and royally messing up at one point), but now itвЂ™s working - and IвЂ™m excited! Secure Shellfish has many other features that improve the iOS terminal experience. The new process makes publishing easier and brings back key features I missed from my previous CMS. You can use your own TextMate- and Sublime Text-compatible syntax definitions. If youвЂ™re reading this, my new blogging workflow is working. With support for more than 80 source code and markup languages, Textastic brings the powerful syntax coloring engine of the iOS source code editor to the Mac.