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title: "Publishing to My Blog with github.dev"
description: "Testing a new workflow for publishing posts to my site using nothing but a browser."
date: 2021-08-29
url: https://krismuniz.com/posts/github-dev
---

# Publishing to My Blog with github.dev

I've been looking for a lightweight workflow to post to my site for a while. My process for publishing new posts and making changes to my site is already pretty simple, but GitHub's new [web-based editor](https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-codespaces/web-based-editor) has dramatically reduced the necessary friction, particularly when publishing new posts. 

My blog posts are simple [MDX](https://mdxjs.com/) files, so all I really need is a decent text editor with MDX syntax highlighting. Unfortunately, I haven't found many MDX editors out there, so I've had to use VSCode all this time. 

But now I can just use VSCode in the browser!!! There's a very nice [MDX extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=silvenon.mdx) for VSCode, which I can also install on `github.dev`. So now I just open my site's GitHub repo page, press `.` and boom, I'm in VSCode in seconds.

From there, I can just create a new `.mdx` file, edit it, and commit the changes straight from my browser. Committing my changes immediately triggers a new release. Netlify builds my site, [generates a new open graph image](https://krismuniz.com/posts/the-og) for my post, and we're done!

From now on, I'll be publishing blog posts from my browser using [github.dev](https://github.dev). Pretty neat.