Blog Workflow

It is universal truth (probably) that all personal blogs are ~70% "automated" with a mish mash of command line tools trying to simulate a CMS. My blog is no different, and like everyone else, I think it is a brilliant and elegant process. My blog is built with `svelte.js` and I generally write posts in html directly in a `Post` component.

I use `hygen` templating to automate boring and repeatable file creation and manipulation tasks.

For example if I want to create a new blog post, I invoke hygen as shown below and it will create a new post page and inject a hyperlink to itself on my home page.

$ hygen blogpost new

j Hygen will respond with something like this to show that it did what I asked!

$ Loaded templates: _templates
      inject: src/routes/(main)/+page.svelte
      added: src/routes/(simple)/posts/blog-workflow/+page.svelte

My Hygen templates are fairly simple - here's the one that creates the new post page:

---
to: src/routes/(simple)/posts/<%=name%>/+page.svelte
---
// page html

And here's the one that adds a link to that new page on my homepage

---
inject: true
to: src/routes/(main)/+page.svelte
after: <div id="listings" class="pt-4 pb-8">
---
  <Listing
    slug="posts/<%=name%>"
    title="<%=name%>"
    description=""
/>-%>

I also use Hygen to automatically add status updates, I can make status updates without ever having to start an editor.

---
inject: true
to: ../src/routes/(simple)/status/+page.svelte
after: </header>
---
 <Status
	title="<%=title%>"
	status="<%=emote%>"
	date="<%= h.currentDate() %>"
	time="<%= h.currentTime() %>"
	city="Tokyo, Japan"
	note="<%=update%>"
 />

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