Creating a simple posting interface

I recently noticed that I haven't been posting much on my blog which surprised me because blogging has always been among my favourite activities. The main obstacle that has prevented me from posting more often is that I didn't had an easy to use interface or app for doing so. When this blog was done with Racket + NodeJS, I implemented a MetaWeblog API server and thus could use apps such as MarsEdit to post to my blog. Once I rebuilt using Lua, I didn't finish implementing that API — I got it halfway done — and thus couldn't use that app anymore. I implemented Micropub API in Lua but am yet to find an app I like to use that supports that spec. Thankfully, Micropub is such an easy spec to implement that creating a little client for it can be done in hours if not minutes.

Today, in about two hours, I made a small single-file HTML editor for my blog. It allows me to create new posts with ease including file uploads. It is actually the interface I'm using to write this post right now.

It is a simple HTML form with 137 lines of vanilla JavaScript. All the JS does is simple cosmetics such as disabling buttons when posting or uploading is happening (so I don't press them twice) and using the fetch API to send data to the server.

Of course this editor is super simple. There's barelly any error checking and most of the errors will just be console messages, but it is enough for my day to day usage. It serves its purpose which is to provide an easy way for me to make posts. I wonder what new features I'll implement as the week moves on.