Crossposting without the copy-paste: a GitHub Action from Hugo to dev.to

My blog runs on Hugo. I also recently discovered I can cross-post to dev.to , because that's where a lot of the conversation actually happens. For a while, my workflow was the obvious one: write the post, publish it here, open dev.to, paste it in, fix the frontmatter, fix the links, hit publish. It worked. I also stopped doing it after the second post. Copy-paste friction is the kind of chore that silently kills a publishing habit. So I did what most developers do when a task becomes repetitive: