I read Ethan Marcotte’s Link bug this week, which led me to Sophie Koonin’s Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy, and that is such a cool idea that I had to do something similar.

Thanks to getting nerdswiped by Ethan and Sophie I now have a Cloudflare Worker that takes links that I tag with blog on Raindrop.io, and posts them (with excerpts taken from the Notes section) as link posts to this blog. You can just scroll down to see a bunch of examples.

It’s not fancy but it works beautifully! Every hour it checks for new links in Raindrop.io with the blog tag, and then it creates a posts like this:

Link title

This is my note about the article, with markdown support.

→ Article Title

If this is something that could be useful to you, you can view the source code here and deploy to Cloudflare Workers to make it your own.

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