Progress thus far
June 27, 2024
Ok, so as a follow up here, just for my reference, I actually didn't need to add anything to periodically save my progress (yet). It appears that my issue was around the Data Protection keys and so all I had to do was enable the "Load User Profile" in my application pool and thankfully that was something I was able to enable. At first I thought I might have to figure out how to persist the keys to the file system, but apparently toggling this switch solved the problem and was much easier to implement.
Looks like I do need to make this thing way more mobile friendly and I would like to add some features to the editing side of my posts as well, but I must say that things are working out a little better than I was expecting. Trying to create this post from my phone was a bit challenging and I ran into the good old "Oops something went wrong" error when I first tried to bring up the admin side, but a quick reload seems to have fixed things.