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Check the changes into Git, and push them up to GitHub.

My process for publishing a new post is as follows: I’m sure I’ll write more about how I’m using Workflow to simplify many tasks I need to do, but right now I have a script I use for releasing any changes to the site. I think most people who use their iPad for more than just content consumption will know about Workflow, I suspect I’ll build some Workflows (see below) to handle the resizing part, but I haven’t done that yet. Right now I’m using screenshots direct from the iPad, or photos taken on my iPhone and cropping them using the built-in editing features in Photos.app, but that means the images are too large for the web site (even though the CSS handles the resizing well). I’m still working on the best solution for cropping and editing images ready for the site. The built-in markdown preview is also pretty decent too, which helps a lot during the initial editing of posts. It has syntax highlighting for multiple languages (useful for me as I will not just be writing this blog on my iPad), and has a well thought out extended keyboard perfect for coding. Textastic is a powerful multi-language code editor for iOS. Working Copy is a really nice (and highly recommended) Git client for iOS.Īs well as the obvious Git functions, it also works as a document provider making it easy to open files in your repository in other programs.

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Software Working Copy (for Git)Īs mentioned above, using GitHub is central to how my blogging setup works. It’s a great service, and no-one has any excuse nowadays for not offering a secure site to thier customers. Let’s Encrypt offer free certificates for your web server, and can be kept up to date through automation. I wanted to make this site HTTPS from the start - for both security and for Google ranking - and on my setup it’s easy to do this through Let’s Encrypt.

doesn’t work great in Textastic (see below) Let’s Encrypt This is really handy to check everything works before making the changes go live, as the preview of images etc. This is really useful as I can test any changes after checking them in (via if you are interested too!). The code for the site is all held in GitHub, and actually could be hosted from there as GitHub repositories can natively serve Jekyll sites.

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You need to be happy with the UNIX command line to setup the server, but I’m reasonably proficient and it’s much better (for me) to have full control over my server rather than being on a cheap shared host somewhere. My virtual server is running Ubuntu 16.04, and I’m using NGINX as the web server pointing to the static site. I’ve been using Digital Ocean for a year or so, and are really liking the simplicity of their setup and excellent documentation and support. I like Jekyll anyway, but it makes it a good fit for this blog as it means I can write posts in Markdown and not have to worry too much about running some sort of web server on the iPad. It’s pretty powerful (runs on Ruby), fully customisable, cross-platform, and is great for blogging in Markdown.

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I run quite a few of my sites on Jekyll, a static site generator popularised by GitHub. They’re not cheap though, so not sure right now if they’re worth it. The keyboard does the job, but am seriously considering investing in either an Apple or Logitech Smart Keyboard Cover at some point, mainly for convenience. It’s really light and easy to toss in my bag if I’m going out and about. I’m currently using an Amazon Basic Bluetooth Keyboard that I’ve had for a while (not sure it’s still available). The display is truly outstanding, and it’s a really nice mix of relative power and portability.

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My iPad is a 2016 9.7 inch Pro model, and I love it. Right now, for me it’s all an experiment for 2017, so we’ll see how I feel later in the year if I keep this up. I can’t really define why (novelty perhaps?), but it just does. Most of all, it somehow feels much more fun to write this on my iPad that it ever would on either my Mac or my Windows PC. Also many apps are exceedingly well designed to do a few things very well rather than more general purpose PC apps. Single focus apps (or at most 2 in split screen view) do make it easier to concentrate on the task in hand. Tasks that are natural on PCs may involve lateral thinking to complete on iOS.

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At times, working on the iPad certainly makes you think about how to solve problems to do the ‘simplest things’. Like most people who are trying the ‘iPad Work Lifestyle’, half the fun of trying it is the challenge to doing work a in different way. All about how I'm blogging efficiently from my iPad Pro Why do this?