blogng/blog/2015-06-30-static-site-generators.markdown

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comments: true
date: 2015-06-30 00:28
layout: post
tags: blogging, octopress, meta
title: Static site generators
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I use octopress with github hosting my pages.
Everytime I sit down to write, I have to look up commands in my bash history and read documentation. Its very distracting when you just want to write.

Maybe its my workflow thats wrong, I should replace all this with a set of small shell scripts :-P, maybe octopress 3.0 (insert another tool) will solve this.

But at this point I dont even remember which branch in my repo has what, and I should switch to a firendlier paltform (ghost or posthaven) or do a massive cleanup ASAP.

_EDIT: I finally managed to do that clean up_
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`---`
			`comments: true`
Convert from old categories to tags import sys import yaml with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp: data = fp.read() if not data.find("---") == 0: # no head print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND") sys.exit(-1) data = data[3:] head_end = data.find("---") head = data[0:head_end] data = data[head_end+3:] metadata = yaml.safe_load(head) cats = metadata.pop('categories', None) if cats != None: if type(cats) == list: tags = cats elif type(cats) == str: tags = cats.split() tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags)) metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags) new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" # write it print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}") with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) if not metadata.get("tags", None): metadata["tags"] = "untagged" new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}") # write it with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) print("No changes needed") 2019-01-28 22:16:27 +00:00			`date: 2015-06-30 00:28`
			`layout: post`
			`tags: blogging, octopress, meta`
			`title: Static site generators`
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`---`
			`I use octopress with github hosting my pages.`
			`Everytime I sit down to write, I have to look up commands in my bash history and read documentation. Its very distracting when you just want to write.`

			`Maybe its my workflow thats wrong, I should replace all this with a set of small shell scripts :-P, maybe octopress 3.0 (insert another tool) will solve this.`

			`But at this point I dont even remember which branch in my repo has what, and I should switch to a firendlier paltform (ghost or posthaven) or do a massive cleanup ASAP.`

			`_EDIT: I finally managed to do that clean up_`