Writing a blog post without a screen

This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post.This is my first ever blog post written without a display. I have wanted a tool like this for a while, but my motivation for finally building something was seeing Jo's excellent implementation of the idea. Jo used a Raspberry Pi 400 with a bash script that, on boot, opens a "nano" file into which you can write. Jo's implementation also automatically copied the text file in which you were working over to a flash drive. My script as-is only saves the file to disk, so it can be retrieved later.I thought of this idea because I sometimes look away from my computer while I am writing. I do the same on my phone, too: if I am deep in thought, or capturing an idea, I want to focus on the world around me. What if a device could let me…