Continuing in my quest to own all my data and systems, I want to figure out how to take back control of my blog.

Right now it is a WordPress site hosted at Dreamhost. Been working great for years. However, I don't really like that all the posts are a WP database in a proprietary (though published) format.

My ideal blogging system:

• all data stored in text files, preferably Markdown
• allows multiple authors
• single button/step publishing
• can write blog on all devices
• some templates to...

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Only announcing this to keep myself accountable. I'm on Twitter/RSS too much so I'm taking the rest of the month off to reset. I have one important project that I am not focussing on, so drastic steps are needed. Deleting Tweetbot, Reader, Facebook from all devices

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Great news, this blog now pushes via PubSubHubbub so you Feedbin folks should be set for all the real-time updates from this oft updated blog.

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I was trying out BT Sync to replace Dropbox and then I saw FiloSync, so I checked that out as well. The downside of BT Sync is that your main computer must be logged in for your devices to get the updated files. This is a problem for me as I am rarely logged into our desktop machine at the same time as my work machine so the files aren't synced often. Also, getting the folders synced is a tad awkward. FiloSync Pros: * Runs on a server so I don't have to be logged in * Allows folders to...

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