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title: "Fetching posts from Dropbox"
slug: fetching-posts-from-dropbox
section: tech
date: 2013-08-24T22:07:00.000Z
canonical: https://roland.leth.ro/blog/tech/fetching-posts-from-dropbox
---

I tried several text editors for the iPad so far and none really nailed it. Until now. After reading Viticci's [review](http://www.macstories.net/stories/editorial-for-ipad-review/ "Reinventing iOS Automation: Editorial Review") of [Editorial](http://www.omz-software.de/editorial/index.html "Editorial for iPad"), even [knowing](https://posts.app.net/9166647) I won't make much use of it, I still went ahead and bought it. The fact that I had my iMac in service for a few days might have been a huge reason I was enjoying this, but I was enjoying it so much, that I actually went ahead and imported several workflows and created a few of my own and drafted a couple of blog posts for when I had my iMac back.

I was kinda sad that I couldn't publish the posts right after writing them, since the blog is hosted on Heroku and they have a read-only filesystem (meaning i can't add new posts without pushing a git commit), but that's why I decided to give read-posts-from-Dropbox-instead-of-locally a try after all. The code is already there, but commented out because I ended up thinking it's not a great idea, since the flow when a user reaches the blog would be user -> server -> Dropbox -> server -> user, much slower than user -> server -> user, but until proven, it's all speculation. I might have to add a database somewhere for less redundant Dropbox communication, but I'm looking forward to it.

If the extra fetch-from-Dropbox step proves to not slow things down too much, that means I will have the freedom to publish posts when mobile, granting me the opportunity to not only post from anywhere, but also to actually take a break from the computer as an excuse to write a blog post with Editorial on my iPad. Eventually outdoors.