hi! writing this on my phone right now. trying out this idea i found from exa sys where you syncthing an eleventy website between multiple devices so you can edit your site from anywhere.
you need(?) to run a dev server on your server for this which is a bit odd.
it seems to work quite well! the main bottleneck is, of course, iOS.
the setup seems to look like:
- ‘Synctrain’ for Syncthing support on iOS,
- ‘Buffer’ for actually editing files.
and the workflow is roughly:
- edit desired file
- hit the save button(? why is non autosave a feature??)
- go into synctrain and force a rescan
bwah.
it’s nice to write markdown
Djot in bed! seeing it
live update on my laptop is nice, too.
honestly on mobile the benefit of using syncthing over an edit-over-ssh code editor is… dubious. having to manually poke syncthing is annoying and is an iOS limitation really (though signalling an edit is a better system than continuously polling anyway. especially on a battery constrained device like a phone)