I’ve had code for ages to handle images automatically in Emacs and the WordPress Emacs package, but it hasn’t been integrated well before, and it’s been a bit hacky, leaving temporary files behind and stuff.
So I’ve now finally cleaned it up, and here’s how it works in practice:
See? Blogging with images is easy in Emacs.
Now, for this to work, you need a camera that uploads snaps automatically, of course. I use a Sony a9, but there’s many options out there — or you can use a wifi SD card, like I talk about in that blog post, too.
Which reminds me: I was wondering whether the new Sony a1 II camera is good for my use case. The a9 is almost perfect, but since I’m shooting one-handed in low light conditions, it sounds like the a1 would be even perfecter. (That’s a word.)
Of course there are no real reviews for the thing I’m interested in: Does the wifi FTP functionality work as well on the new a1 as it does on my a9? But I found this:
Eeek! “Improved FTP capabilities and integration with Sony’s Creators’ Cloud for automatic file uploads to services like Adobe Lightroom or Google Drive” could either mean that the FTP works as before (i.e., it works really well locally, too), or it means that they only allow “improved” FTP towards “Sony’s Creators’ Cloud” or the other central storage solutions, which isn’t what I want at all. That’d be horrible. I hate improvements sooo much…
Anybody happen to know? Many other cameras also offer automatic upload functionality, but most of them also use some crappy cloud solution instead of local FTP — I’m running an FTP server on this laptop, and the camera uploads the images directly to the laptop. It’s fast and reliable.
I mean, the a9 works well, so I’m in no hurry to switch, but…