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1 | # Blog Tooling |
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| 3 | With so many of the bloggers I follow talking about the the latest release of MarsEdit[1], I've been getting tooling envy. While my blog[2] is a full-featured enterprise-grade state-of-the-art piece of software, it's not compatible with any of these tools :(. Surely, a lack of appropriate tooling is the real reason why I don't update as often. | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | => https://redsweater.com/marsedit/ [1] MarsEdit | |
| 6 | => https://git.sr.ht/~rbdr/blog [2] Blog | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | After a dozen misguided minutes of reading the atompub spec[3], I decided to integrate my tooling directly to my editor of choice: `nvim`. | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | => https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5023/ [3] The atompub spec | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | Thanks to the marvels of VimScript™ I can now add a text file to my blog with `:Blog add`, update the latest post with `:Blog update`, and publish to staging and live with `:Blog stage` and `:Blog publish`. And all it took was a couple of hours of searching how to write commands in vim[4], learning the difference between `<args>` and `<q-args>`, and a ton of sunken cost bias. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | => https://vimhelp.org/usr_40.txt.html#40.2 [4] How to write commands in vim | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | Here you can see the code in its entirety (with a couple replacements): | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | ||
| 19 | ``` | |
| 20 | command -nargs=? Blog :call Blog(<q-args>) | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | function! Blog(...) | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | let command = get(a:, 1, 0) | |
| 25 | let path = expand("%:p") | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | if command == "add" | |
| 28 | if path == "" | |
| 29 | echo "This buffer is not a text file" | |
| 30 | else | |
| 31 | echo "Adding ".path." to blog" | |
| 32 | call system("blog --add ".path) | |
| 33 | endif | |
| 34 | return | |
| 35 | endif | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | if command == "update" | |
| 38 | if path == "" | |
| 39 | echo "This buffer is not a text file" | |
| 40 | else | |
| 41 | echo "Updating ".path." to blog" | |
| 42 | call system("blog --update ".path) | |
| 43 | endif | |
| 44 | return | |
| 45 | endif | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | if command == "stage" | |
| 48 | echo "Publishing blog to staging" | |
| 49 | call system("blog --publish <staging_url>") | |
| 50 | return | |
| 51 | endif | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | if command == "publish" | |
| 54 | echo "Publishing blog" | |
| 55 | call system("blog --publish <blog_url>") | |
| 56 | call system("blog --publish-archive <gemini_url>") | |
| 57 | return | |
| 58 | endif | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | if command == "help" | |
| 61 | echo "Available commands:" | |
| 62 | echo "\tadd\t\tadds current file to blog" | |
| 63 | echo "\tupdate\t\tupdates latest entry of blog with current file" | |
| 64 | echo "\tstage\t\tpublish blog to staging" | |
| 65 | echo "\tpublish\t\tpublish blog to production" | |
| 66 | echo "\thelp\t\tthis message" | |
| 67 | return | |
| 68 | endif | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | echo "Unknown command, run :Blog help for help" | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | endfunction | |
| 73 | ``` | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | Surely, this is all I need to form a publishing habit. | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | Written, published, edited, republished, debugged, and republished with nvim. |