It Has Been a While

Tue Apr 25

It has been a while since I last posted. I have been busy with work and family, but I am back and ready to write more.

Written by: Brett Baisley

The Astro logo on a dark background with a pink glow.

My last post was in 2022. We are more than a quarter into 2023, so I thought I better write something. So here I am, trying to see if I can do this completely on an iPad. Safari is the web browser, GitHub.dev is the editor, amd a whole lot of trial and error to get to this point.

Three big issues so far into this little experiment.

  1. The actual cursor, where the letters are appearing as I type, are about 8 characters behind where the blinking cursor is. This is making it rather difficult to move around to fix typos.

  2. Starting a new line, the iPad doesnt auto capitalize the first letter in this editor. Maybe it isn’t supposed to, but I am pretty sure autocorrect or something in iPhone will do that for me.

  3. Typing on iPad virtual keyboard is annoying. If I end up doing this at all, I would need to invest in some sort of physical keyboard.

Anywhoo, thats enough to test with, so let’s see how we can publish this now.