9. Longhand

Slow journalism collective

by Caleb Ortiz

Preview of Longhand, a blog

Description

This started as a slow journalism collective and was rebuilt from scratch after the first version collapsed under its own options. Longhand keeps the editorial shell and throws away everything that was not being used.

  • Responsive down to a phone without a separate layout
  • Every action is undoable
  • Shareable state — the URL is the document

Bolt and Astro did most of the lifting. I wrote the schema by hand and let the generated components follow it rather than the other way round.

Open to feedback, especially on the parts I have stopped being able to see.

Workflow

  1. Generated the first pass in Bolt

    Iterated on the prompt rather than on the output — fixing the generated code by hand meant losing the fix on the next regeneration.

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Other editorial builds from the gallery.

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