Hello! I have not been writing for a few days. Truth be told, I have not been feeling very well. But it is slowly getting better.
I have spent all afternoon finally addressing my publishing issues, and now I can write my blogposts all relaxed and uncomplicated in a Markdown editor locally on my laptop. I have set up a script on the server that handles the conversion of the .md file to HTML, adds all the relevant tags, and creates an entry in my JSON file with all the blogposts. Finally, it rebuilds the Astro project and then recomposes the Docker container.
The best part: I just need to run one single local terminal command for this.
In addition to that, I have been busy changing some things under the hood to make the website part of the Indieweb. I only recently heard about it, and it is basically exactly what I was doing with the page anyway.
I set up the identity tags and put an h-card in place. I'll get to work on an RSS feed as a next step; it should be simple enough to add that to the publishing script, as well as automate the blog post update to the fediverse. Lastly, I want to set Webmentions in place, so that if I ever link to anyone else who is part of this initiative, they will be notified.
Small post, but a big thing for me and the work I am doing here.
See you tomorrow, maybe with another dev log, maybe with something random, 50/50 on what I'll do.
-- Cass