after a few months with Scribbles ...
Tools... I still like it a lot.
How did I adapt to WYSIWYG writing?
Just fine. I even look forward to it.
How did I adapt to life without Markdown?
I don't miss it too much. After just a few weeks it even seems a little odd to me that I thought Markdown was a required feature. I would like semantic headings at some point, but it's all fine as it is for what I'm trying to do here.
What else do I like about it?
I like being able to make a quick edit without doing a commit. It's super fast, I can do it from anywhere, there's no git stuff to go wrong.
How has it changed how I blog?
I find myself much more willing to decide that I've run out of things to say and just quit typing. It's just so easy to open a new post and get going that I've got a looser mindset going in, and that makes it easier to avoid the impulse to really stick the landing or hone the lede. And knowing that edits are quick and easy, I don't worry as much because I can fix a post from anywhere with a browser.
What would I change?
I'd rather have free tagging than categories. Having to create categories is a little at odds with the general looseness of the Scribbles experience. It makes sense to have them, and it provides some options for publishing and feeds that are welcome, but I'd personally prefer free-tagging.
I'd like the option for third-party analytics because tinylytics has some limitations. I don't care about page views so much as I do about referrers. I think anything very privacy oriented is going to be able to tell you less about where traffic is coming from by the page/path, though, so maybe that's a wash.
Eventually a few levels of semantic headings for export.
Am I sticking with it?
Think so! I don't want to go back to an SSG. That is at odds with how I prefer to work on something that is always walking the line between online scratch pad, journal, and "Mastodon post that went over 500 characters."
The next time I'm on the job market, which is why I built out a more complex site last time, I don't think I'm going to bother with the whole "content marketing," or "feed the LinkedIn maw" approach at all, and I do not need to be known professionally for making a website.
It is very much aligned with my desire to just do what I feel like doing right now, and not worry about what will happen to it in the future.
If something does happen to Scribbles in the future, I'll export my stuff, save it somewhere, and figure out the next thing that is about this simple and useful.