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Chiming in here with my latest "weird but cheap" stack: * Use a Trello board as a free CMS. * Write cloudflare worker code to read cards from the board via Tr
by splatcollision 6y ago
Chiming in here with my latest "weird but cheap" stack:
* Use a Trello board as a free CMS.
* Write cloudflare worker code to read cards from the board via Trello APIs and render card content as plain old HTML.
I use labels as tags for the categories, and have specific formatting in the card descriptions. If an attachment is a YouTube URL, it renders the video as an embed, otherwise it uses image attachments as post images. Card covers render as the link thumbnails on the list pages.
Powers our family YouTube blog: https://thunderiron.family https://thunderiron.family
(Check it out if you like fun and delicious Keto recipes)
An earlier version of this stack powers my personal dev blog, and the approach is written up here:
https://splatcollision.com/page/meta-post https://splatcollision.com/page/meta-post
What is particularly cool is that I can post things right from my phone using the Trello apps!
- cusx 6y agohaha brilliant!
- el_dev_hell 6y agoDamn! That's certainly novel. Nice work.
- caspar 6y agoNicely done! In pre-COVID-19 times, Atlassian used a similar hack for its catered lunch menus: a hand-updated Trello board stored the menu items, along with some data about which items are vegetarian, gluten free, etc (using labels?), and then that spat out a nicely formatted menu at a well known URL / on some TVs. Little bit of ingenuity goes a long way to avoid having to maintain yet another piece of software :)