Scheduling Blog Posts Without Forgetting to Flip a Flag

I kept writing posts, dating them for next week, and then forgetting to flip draft: false when that date arrived. The fix is to stop relying on memory and let the date do the gating.

export function isPublished(post: { data: { date: string; draft?: boolean } }) {
  return !post.data.draft && new Date(post.data.date) <= new Date();
}

Run every consumer of the collection through this: the post route, the paginated listing, tags, series pages, and the RSS feed. Gate the OG image route too, or a future post can still leak its image at a guessable URL before it’s live.

Now draft: true still works for anything I want to hide indefinitely, but the normal case is just dating a post in the future. The next push on or after that date publishes it, no flag to remember.