Static Sites and Images

Adding images to posts is an…interesting process. It’s not as smooth as drag-and-drop of a rich text editor experience is, you have to manually insert an explicit link to your image within your Markdown. It’s

And then you have to add the photo to you Git-tracked site repository, hopefully you have one big folder called “media” inside your static folder so you don’t have to worry about exact URL paths of sub-folders. And now there’s a large blob in your Git tree.

Instead, I plan to switch to doing something else: hosting images on Cloudflare’s R2 object storage.