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Drafts

Previously this post was called "Feature request to self: draft posts". Its original contents will be below. But I've decided to make it into a public scratch pad for drafts after all. It's important to allow others to see my sloppy incomplete thinking, or things I was interested in at some point. I should try to date things too.

Original post content:

I should really add some draft post functionality to this blog. Over the years I've had several and some of them I even finish but the way I keep the drafts around is just keeping the new post tab around as one of my hundreds of tabs. This used to be a lot more flaky and I'd lose some drafts that way, as the new post page is mostly just a simple textarea tag.

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