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There's Tina CMS for editing files in Git, but honestly editing flat files is probably the least interesting or complicated part of an enterprise CMS, and IMO t

There's Tina CMS for editing files in Git, but honestly editing flat files is probably the least interesting or complicated part of an enterprise CMS, and IMO there's rarely a good reason to interact with files directly versus a database that publishes files.

huijzer 6mo ago
I ran git-based blogs for years and have gone back to CMS. The instant preview and the instant publishing really make it a lot more pleasant to work with it. With Git, my read-eval-print loop so to say was a minute which is just too long. Fixing a typo then takes 2 minutes.
- simonw 6mo ago
  Now I'm imagining a static site editing tool that runs the exact same templates client-side to power an accurate preview that are then used by the static page build process.
  - nimonian 6mo ago
    I am building _exactly_ this for my org for the past month, using Nuxt Content. A "draft" is a row in a database with live preview. Users can click a button to make a checkpoint (git commit, by GitHub API, but they don't know that). When they click "publish", the PR for their draft is merged. Writers in my team can use a nice Tiptap editor with custom components. I get the change management of git. The API for reading content and editing drafts is also exposed over MCP meaning AI can collaborate in the authoring process from anywhere that can connect to MCP. Loving it so far.
  - huijzer 6mo ago
    I’ve tried to build that but GitHub doesn’t allow secrets to be stored inside browser so you can’t commit.
    - simonw 6mo ago
      GitHub's content API is available over CORS: https://tools.simonwillison.net/cors-fetch#method=PUT&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.github.com%2Frepos%2Fsimonw%2Fdatasette%2Fcontents%2FREADME.md&bodyType=json&json=%7B%22message%22%3A%22my+commit+message%22%2C%22committer%22%3A%7B%22name%22%3A%22Monalisa+Octocat%22%2C%22email%22%3A%22octocat%40github.com%22%7D%2C%22content%22%3A%22bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM%3D%22%7D&headers=%5B%7B%22key%22%3A%22Accept%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22application%2Fvnd.github%2Bjson%22%7D%2C%7B%22key%22%3A%22Authorization%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22Bearer+%3CYOUR-TOKEN%3E%22%7D%2C%7B%22key%22%3A%22X-GitHub-Api-Version%22%2C%22value%22%3A%222026-03-10%22%7D%5D https://tools.simonwillison.net/cors-fetch#method=PUT&url=ht... I've built client-side apps that store a GitHub token in localStorage and send them with fetch() for creating Gists and that works fine: https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html

huijzer 6mo ago

I ran git-based blogs for years and have gone back to CMS. The instant preview and the instant publishing really make it a lot more pleasant to work with it. With Git, my read-eval-print loop so to say was a minute which is just too long. Fixing a typo then takes 2 minutes.

simonw 6mo ago
Now I'm imagining a static site editing tool that runs the exact same templates client-side to power an accurate preview that are then used by the static page build process.
- nimonian 6mo ago
  I am building _exactly_ this for my org for the past month, using Nuxt Content. A "draft" is a row in a database with live preview. Users can click a button to make a checkpoint (git commit, by GitHub API, but they don't know that). When they click "publish", the PR for their draft is merged. Writers in my team can use a nice Tiptap editor with custom components. I get the change management of git. The API for reading content and editing drafts is also exposed over MCP meaning AI can collaborate in the authoring process from anywhere that can connect to MCP. Loving it so far.
- huijzer 6mo ago
  I’ve tried to build that but GitHub doesn’t allow secrets to be stored inside browser so you can’t commit.
  - simonw 6mo ago
    GitHub's content API is available over CORS: https://tools.simonwillison.net/cors-fetch#method=PUT&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.github.com%2Frepos%2Fsimonw%2Fdatasette%2Fcontents%2FREADME.md&bodyType=json&json=%7B%22message%22%3A%22my+commit+message%22%2C%22committer%22%3A%7B%22name%22%3A%22Monalisa+Octocat%22%2C%22email%22%3A%22octocat%40github.com%22%7D%2C%22content%22%3A%22bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM%3D%22%7D&headers=%5B%7B%22key%22%3A%22Accept%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22application%2Fvnd.github%2Bjson%22%7D%2C%7B%22key%22%3A%22Authorization%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22Bearer+%3CYOUR-TOKEN%3E%22%7D%2C%7B%22key%22%3A%22X-GitHub-Api-Version%22%2C%22value%22%3A%222026-03-10%22%7D%5D https://tools.simonwillison.net/cors-fetch#method=PUT&url=ht... I've built client-side apps that store a GitHub token in localStorage and send them with fetch() for creating Gists and that works fine: https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html