Automation
Until today, I’ve been generating new posts by looking at the clock and figuring out which month to nest a new post under, then using an explicit call to hugo new with the expected path and output file name. This already did most of the work for me, since it draws from the default.md archetype file, but even that was prone to dumb human error.
As a result, I decide to crack my knuckle and dig back into the ugly-ish world of bash scripting. I did a ton of this when I was in college interacting with the school’s linux systems but have fallen out style since my current work is predominantly Windows and PowerShell. Luckily, the amount I wanted to automate (at least for now) is small enough to not run to bash’s syntax nightmare fuel.
All I want this to do is remove the thinking around the whole path structure, include the month and year, and just generate based on a title that I pass into the script. Seemed simple enough, and it totally was.
#!/bin/bash
printf -v year '%(%Y)T' -1
printf -v month '%(%m)T' -1
hugo new --kind post posts/$year/$month/$1/index.md
All I needed was the year and month from the current date. This Stack Overflow post gave me exactly what I needed, with the printf formatting wizardry. That coupled with a simple reference to $1 was enough to craft this simple little script.
Instead of having to type out:
hugo new --kind post posts/2023/02/enter-automation/index.md
I could instead just invoke the script like this:
./scripts/make-post.sh enter-automation
A lot simpler, and allows me to focus on titling without having to consider the overall structure. I’ll probably expand upon this to auto-populate tags and descriptions in the markdown header automatically, but that may be too much for what I really want to do at the end of the day.
About Me Still WIP
The about me page is still in progress, just haven’t gotten around to it. Will still be a while.
Music
You like jazz?
Today was Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk, and what an album that was. Definitely appreciated this one more than the other two jazz albums we’ve covered so far in our journey, landing at 4 / 5.