If you can see this, then that means I've successfully merged my Contentful content model, with my local Markdown model for content on this blog. This was a goal of mine for a long time last year and I finally had the motivation (and lack of employment - haha), to be able to pursue this.
As much as I enjoy posting a Markdown file to create a post, I really did miss the aspect of WYSIWYG blogging that I had when this site was running on Wordpress. I just wanted to sit down and write, and not worry about filenames, syntax, and other minutiae. Trying to reduce the number of walls between me, and posting/creating content is another one of my goals for 2025.
That and I feel like I'm just tired of fiddly stuff. (This might also include Gatsby - but we'll see)
Why Contentful?
I chose Contentful because it had cloud hosting, and a good free / hobbyist tier that would work very well for my purposes.
I looked at Strapi, but didn't really enjoy trying to find a separate place to host and the basic hosting tier was a bit too rich for my tastes.
