I'm posting this from a very, very rough cut at a bespoke blogging client I've been having my friend Claude build out over the past couple days.

I've long suspected that "just edit text files on disk to make blog posts" is, to a certain kind of person, a great sounding idea...but not actually the way to get me to blog.

The problem is that my blog is...a bunch of text files in a git repository that's compiled into a website by a tool called "Eleventy" that runs whenever I put a file in a certain directory of this git repository and push that up to GitHub. There's no API because there's no server.

And I've never learned Swift/Cocoa/etc, so building macOS and iOS tooling to create a graphical blogging client has felt...not all that plausible.

Over the past year or two, things have been changing pretty fast. We have AI agents that have been trained on...well, pretty much everything humans have ever written. And they're pretty good at stringing together software. So, on a whim, I asked Claude to whip me up a blogging client that talks to GitHub in just the right way.

This is the very first post using that new tool, which I'm calling "Post Through It."

Ok, technically, this is the fourth post. But it's the first one I've actually been able to add any content to.