after much push from choc and angél, and some weeks of vacation and procrastionation, i've finally taken the time to redesign my site, refactor my site generation script slightly, so i can be able to blog with ease.
it was quite hard to figure out the logic to display the current blog entry in the navigation header above, but i've figured it out thankfully, and you can see it here if you'd like!
something cool of note is the automatic 'append' feature i've added to the page generation:
case "$(type -- page_"$md_name" 2>/dev/null ||:)" in
*function*) page_"$md_name" ;;
esac
i'm not exactly sure if this is POSIX anyway. what this shell snippet does
is checks for the existence of a function with the name page_ followed by
the name of the markdown file short name. my usecase and example usage
for this is photos.md - from page_photos and so on for the blog page,
to append the photos and blog entries respectively.
if it isn't exactly clear how the site generation works, it essentially builds up a HTML file from scratch and outputs it to a relevant file, something along the lines of:
generate_html() {
echo "<html>"
html_header ...
markdown_generate "$1"
...
}
generate_html out.md > out.html
of course, this is a simplified example, as my [page generator] is more sophisticated. if it were complex, then, that's impossible because i would never write something like that :3c
redesigning the site was fun, but the blog area may remain unused. for now, it was just a challenge :)