Thread by @adamwathan

Playing around with using Notion as a CMS for my personal site just to reduce the friction to publishing. Pretty fun but the whole "blocks" abstraction + pagination stuff makes it a lot of work to extract some basic written content via the API 😅

For real the amount of API requests you have to make to get all of the content for a page is wild. Have to recursively walk every block looking for children and make new requests to get those children. Starting to think this is maybe a bad idea, we'll see 😅

Alright giving up on this, just too much to worry about with the number/rate of API calls, rate limiting, transforming the complex data structure I get back, etc. Still love Notion as Notion though.

Now I'm wishing Bear had an API 😅 Anything similar out there that does?

This is what I do now but it’s too much friction. Creating files, making commits, manually naming and storing image files, etc. It needs to be as easy as tweeting.

https://twitter.com/saxemauricede/status/1483205587932438538

Pushing harder on the Notion option again — it looks like there's a bug in the API though where timestamps are not including seconds/milliseconds which is making caching a bit annoying 🤔 Everything is always 00:00.