doin' it
dummy text, ya big dummy. (<- self-directed play1, don’t get offended2)
And it works! Weird workflow, but I’m probably not a common user story, tapping out a post while ssh’d into a terminal session on a public access Unix server. Seems like the normal workflow would be to do all your writing and editing in your local working directory, and then when you build the site, serve it on localhost and check it out; when it’s good, rsync or ftp it to your web host. But in my setup, I’d be serving it on the remote ssh session. OK, I could run a port-forwarding tunnel, and I should probably do that at some point just to do it, but I went with the solution that came to my head, which was to copy over the output directory contents to the blog directory in my public_html/. Initial workflow set.
So now, the thing at this moment was to try editing an already-published post. And this looks to be working too.