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Adding X.com link support isn't as trivial as I thought

Embedding X.com links is something I want to start adding support for. Typing it on Obsidian is easy since it automatically converts to embed. WordPress’ Gutenberg editor also has an easy embed function.

I realize coding it isn’t as straightforward after looking at the X/Publish tool. It seems to spit out <blockquote> tags with the content pre-filled. I will need to issue network calls first to retrieve this info.

Let’s see where the rabbit hole takes me.

けっきょく・きた・よ。

Roughly translates to: at long last, I’ve finally arrived., which is kind of a poetic way of saying hello world, I guess?

I’ve been thinking about writing again. The main reason I think I couldn’t keep up in the past is that the amount of thinking it requires to actually write something good is sometimes too much for me. I just end up not writing anything for weeks, and then months, until my domain expires or my next thought doesn’t sit well with my previous content anymore. I suppose this time around, I’ll just treat it as my markdown notepad.

I’ve been using Obsidian for a little bit, and coupled with Astro, I can now have a markdown editor with a simple static site that I can host for free on CloudFlare Pages. Since the blog content resides just within my shared Obsidian-Astro workspace, it’s be a breeze to update. Plus, it will always be open on my desktop.

Same place where I dump my notes is the same place I make blog posts. Will this actually stick?