Made some more updates to the web editor created for writing content for this blog. One of the big changes was going from a simple textarea to using the medium-editor node module.

This is the first official, non-testing post I’m creating from it. The experience is pretty nice. I don’t need a lot features but having some simple formatting and syntax highlighting type options is nice.

I was originally planning on using editorjs but saw that Dave Winer was using medium-editor for WordLand so I figured I’d give it a shot. So far so good.

I used Github Copilot’s new agent edit mode to build out most of the code for this. It does a decent job getting something written but needs a lot of tweaking to make it run. It also mostly dumped all the code into a couple of files rather than making it more modular. However I was able to go back through a file and specify what parts should be refactored out into their own functions and files.

Seems like it will be useful. I still think my preferred workflow with “AI” assistants is to chat with them and ask questions rather than farm out the actual code writing.