My remote blogging workflow

I wrote earlier about reworking my blog so that I manage it remotely over SSH. Here’s an update on that. TLDR: success! Connecting I use Zed’s Remote Development to edit my blog content and run git commands over SSH. It works really well. To get it working, I defined the SSH connection to my home server (a Mac Mini) in Zed’s settings like so: "ssh_connections": [ { "nickname": "blog", // `mini.jump` is defined in ~/.ssh/config "host": "mini.jump", "args": [], "projects": [ { "paths": ["~/repos/sal/blog-11ty"] } ], // built-in port forwarding! "port_forwards": [{ "local_port": 8080, "remote_port": 8080 }] } ] This does a couple cool things. First, when I run Zed’s open-remote dialog (Ctrl-Cmd-O), my blog project shows up as an option. When I select it, Zed manages SSH behind the scenes and gives me a workspace that feels more or less like I’m editing my blog locally. When I open Zed’s terminal, for example, it’s SSH’d into the remote host and in the blog path. Sweet. Second, when I…