Blogger vs Medium vs Jekyll/Github vs Postach.io

After a very quick review of my shortlist, I landed on Blogger. At least I'll give it a spin and see how it works out.

Blogger

googleCL isn't maintained. So I don't know what will happen to it at 20th of February when Google APIs will stop supporting Auth1.0 which googleCL uses. So that adds some uncertainty. Nor does it support Python 3, so the future of this CLI isn't something I'd put money on.

Since it doesn't support Python 3, I had some trouble getting it going. At first I tried to install it in a virtual environment so I could isolate it, but that didn't work. I installed it system wide and it went a lot smoother.

Also - the CLI doens't support MarkDown nor is there native support for code blocks, but both of those can be fixed - and expanded with the likes of b.py, bloggertool and easyblogger.  Or use StackEdit and save to Drobox and publish to Blogger.

Blogger also features

• post from email and app
• integration with Google+ 
• one click WordPress import

So many possibilities. Such horrible themes.

Medium

By far the most enjoyable editing experience, but no CLI solution to be found.

Jekylll/Github

Far too much work to set up. I would also have to find a way to synchronize drafts without pushing them to git.

Postach.io

Although exploring Evernote could be fun, it just didn't feel right to go for it when it seemed mostly like an ad hoc solution.