I thought it the predecessor of this <a href="https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website" rel="nofollow">https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website</a><p>where someone writes blog posts on paper and trained an ai to scan the handwriting and post it online.
Seems a bit overly complicated for a blog, no? Like there's a HUGE middle ground between like "blogging on pager" and "posts in Markdown using vim, generating HTML using Jekyll, and serving the content via a small web app in Go on Heroku."<p>I use AWS Amplify with JS - sometimes React, sometimes Svelte - (although there's plenty of alternatives) and you can easily make it this simple.<p>1. Write post in markdown.<p>2. Push to git.<p>Done: it will appear looking perfectly nice as a blog post. Basically only his first step: "write posts in Markdown using vim".
This is why generic names for products / services are such a bad move - I did blogging on paper while in jail. It's called a journal. Now when I get my resources together, I'm going to scan those 300 or so pages and upload them to Medium and transcribe them digitally for easier reading.<p>Obviously "Paper" for this guy didn't work if we're reading a post from 2017.<p>And no, even with the tablets provided by Tarrant County Corrections, blogging was not available.