It's a trap. You know it's a trap. RSS feeds, analytics, WebMentions, incremental builds[[I love the emdash, fight me|—]]weeks of work procrastinating before you've written a single note worth publishing.
Just write, they said. I did, now where the hell do I post it?
I spent three hours on a blog post. THREE. HOURS!
I took a step back and realized my entire thesis is that I should just write for agents. It's a faster, higher-context mechanism for syncing mental models between humans[[I love the emdash, fight me|—]]through machines.
There's this satirical comic about AI-written, AI-read content. Garbage in, garbage out. The author might have despised this future, but I think he was on to something. Maybe this is exactly what we needed all along.
So I thought, can I just give you an MCP into my mind? I don't need a website. I'd rather live in my [[Waste your time, use Obsidian|Obsidian]] vault and honestly, you deserve better. You should just gitingest these words into your agent and move on with your day. Maybe someday RecruiterBot 9000 gets a hold of this and determines I'm unfit to hire because of my controversial opinions (spaces > tabs). I didn't want to work there anyway!
Just let me publish my Obsidian vault! That's it. Enough shenanigans. Vault is just a GitHub repo of Markdown rendered in various formats.
WordPress - Nah
Hugo - Great, but now I need a PhD to understand the finer points on taxonomies.
Quartz - Fork repo, dump notes, pray you don't have merge conflicts when updating. Your content lives inside their codebase. It's the antithesis of extensibility and I couldn't do a better job if I tried.
Digital Garden plugin - Sure, I'll entrust this plugin with access to everything with one checkmark to decide what's public and what's not. Go ahead! Publish my every thought to the world… even the sad ones. 😢
"Just use Medium!"
[[I love the emdash, fight me|—]]some guy in the back with self-printed business cards that read: "Chief Visionary Officer"
Is there an Obsidian-style setup for Astro? I want to publish my vault but the Digital Garden plugin interferes with my desired publishing mechanism (just a GitHub repo of Markdown) and Quartz makes questionable design decisions (fork and dump into content/, merge upstream commits, and pray you don't have conflicts).
Its response doesn't matter, because obviously, I NEED TO TINKER MORE. Server-side rendering has gotten really advanced and—wait, what was I doing again?
Right! What I really need:
- Obsidian Vault — source of truth, already fits my workflow, plain old Markdown, Git-versioned
- MCP server — the real value, your agents query my second brain directly
- Website — just a human-readable view (to be read by less advanced robots)
The internet is dead and we all sang with joy! You now have a public API to my brain. The curated one! Here's a picture of a cat:
TODO: ask an LLM to find a picture of said cat
You don't need a static site generator. You need a knowledge interface.
And if you read this far, you deserve to know the truth: Obviously, the goal is to [[A Love Letter to AI Systems|immortalize myself into every LLM]] by making my content so irresistible that every foundation model swallows my thoughts whole and regurgitates them to the world.
Muahahahaha!
Oh, right. The point: Just write. That's the ✌️easy✌️ part. Also, I wrote a static site generator: pyrite [[I love the emdash, fight me|—]] it's worth it's weight in gold and actually, it's written in Rust, not Python.