Blogging with TextMate, and using AppleScript and JavaScript to ease the pain

Doing all of my blogging with TextMate these past few weeks has been great, except for one terribly annoying thing, namely the inability to quickly conjure up a bit. I was having to manually — gasp — create these (usually) quick, simple posts. I don’t necessarily need speed when starting long-form blog posts like the one you’re currently reading, but for the more frequent “bits” I definitely do. I need/want something that amounts to little more than a keyboard shortcut.

In order to take linked list posts seriously, I definitely need some automation in the process. I hacked around some with what I found on Justin Blanton's site and wherever else I could find AppleScript examples; I am by no means skilled with programming. I've managed to put together something that works for the time being, but I can't help but think there is a more elegant solution to this problem.

This item was posted on March 11, 2010