<story><title>Trying out TinaCMS</title><url>https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/trying-tinacms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cassidoo</author><text>Oh hey that&amp;#x27;s me! Lmk if y&amp;#x27;all have questions. I&amp;#x27;ve been happy with Tina so far.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trying out TinaCMS</title><url>https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/trying-tinacms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jauntywundrkind</author><text>Just started looking, &amp;amp; really like this TinaCMS, from what I&amp;#x27;ve seen of the docs.&lt;p&gt;Semi-headless, Git-backed, so each change goes into a commit. MDX, so you can have a mix of markdown and more complex content (buttons, or more complex components).&lt;p&gt;Not a massive fan of graphql per se, but there&amp;#x27;s a very interesting graphql layer for querying your content. One can define schemas for content, and TinaCMS seems to be able to generate fairly rich data ways to query &amp;amp; search your data.&lt;p&gt;Some of the advanced features are powered by a level.js compatible store, which was &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; popular interface for data stores on node &amp;amp; js for a while. The content is still git filesystem backed, so one can just throw out the store &amp;amp; rebuild it, but the store makes it fast to query versus having to reread the filesystem each time. Neat.&lt;p&gt;The point of this article came down to this observation, which rings true to me. I idealize this model where we have outbrains we can file thoughts &amp;amp; data into, and this seems like a great tool for starting:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;something that Chris Coyier said in his segment stuck with me when he talked about his consistency: the fact that he can just type into a CMS and hit send, with minimal things getting in his way, has kept him more consistent in his writing. I do prefer Markdown and my usual local-first workflow, but the fact that I could spit out a blog quickly without any sort of copying and pasting or editing is something I’m excited to try.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>