link handling

main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	_ "embed"
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func _main(o opts) error {
+	t, err := ioutil.ReadAll(o.In)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("could not read from stdin: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	r := regexp.MustCompile(`\(LINK ([^ ]+?) (.+?)\)`)
+	mms := r.FindAllSubmatch(t, -1)
+
+	if mms == nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(o.Out, string(t))
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	output := string(t)
+	footer := ""
+
+	for ix, ms := range mms {
+		rawLink := string(ms[0])
+		link := string(ms[1])
+		title := string(ms[2])
+		switch o.Mode {
+		case "html":
+			output = strings.ReplaceAll(output, rawLink,
+				fmt.Sprintf("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>", link, title))
+		case "gopher":
+			output = strings.ReplaceAll(output, rawLink, fmt.Sprintf("%s[%d]", title, ix))
+			linkType := "i"
+			if strings.HasPrefix(link, "http") {
+				linkType = "h"
+			}
+			footer += fmt.Sprintf("%s[%d]: %s	%s\n", linkType, ix, title, link)
+		case "gemini":
+			output = strings.ReplaceAll(output, rawLink, fmt.Sprintf("%s[%d]", title, ix))
+			footer += fmt.Sprintf("=> %s [%d]: %s\n", link, ix, title)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if footer != "" {
+		output = output + "\n\n" + footer
+	}
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(o.Out, output)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+type opts struct {
+	In   io.Reader
+	Out  io.Writer
+	Mode string
+}
+
+func main() {
+	var modeFlag = flag.String("mode", "", "one of html, gopher, gemini.")
+	flag.Parse()
+	if *modeFlag == "" || (*modeFlag != "html" && *modeFlag != "gopher" && *modeFlag != "gemini") {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "--mode must be specified and one of: html, gopher, gemini")
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	o := opts{
+		In:   os.Stdin,
+		Out:  os.Stdout,
+		Mode: *modeFlag,
+	}
+	if err := _main(o); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err.Error())
+		os.Exit(2)
+	}
+}

make.sh

@@ -1,26 +1,31 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
-# global
-pd=/usr/bin/pandoc
-g=/bin/grep
-tr=/usr/bin/tr
-sed=/bin/sed
-sort=/usr/bin/sort
 
-postDir=/home/vilmibm/blog/posts
+mkdir -p "${HOME}/public_gopher/blog" > /dev/null
+mkdir -p "${HOME}/public_gemini/blog" > /dev/null
+mkdir -p "${HOME}/public_html/blog" > /dev/null
 
-htmlDir=/home/vilmibm/public_html/blog
-htmlIndexTmpl=/home/vilmibm/blog/index.tmpl.html
-htmlIndex=/home/vilmibm/public_html/blog/index.html
+srcDir=$HOME/blog
+postDir=$srcDir/posts
 
-gopherPath=/home/vilmibm/public_gopher/blog
+htmlIndexTmpl=$srcDir/index.tmpl.html
+htmlDir=$HOME/public_html/blog
+htmlIndex=$HOME/public_html/blog/index.html
+
+gopherPath=$HOME/public_gopher/blog
 gopherIndex="${gopherPath}/gophermap"
 
-geminiPath=/home/vilmibm/public_gemini/blog
+geminiPath=$HOME/public_gemini/blog
 geminiIndex="${geminiPath}/index.gmi"
 
-cd $postDir > /dev/null
+# attempt compilation
+if [ ! -e "linkpost" ]
+then
+  go build -o linkpost main.go
+fi
+
+lp="$(pwd)/linkpost"
 
 # backup HTML index
 if [ -e "${htmlIndex}" ]
@@ -31,7 +36,7 @@ fi
 cp $htmlIndexTmpl $htmlIndex
 
 # Remove old gopher posts
-rm ${gopherPath}/*
+rm -f ${gopherPath}/*
 
 # Initialize blog gophermap
 echo "!the phlog of vilmibm as it were" > $gopherIndex
@@ -41,11 +46,13 @@ echo >> $gopherIndex
 echo "the gemblog of vilmibm as it were" > $geminiIndex
 echo >> $geminiIndex
 
-for p in $(ls *.md | $sort -r)
+cd $postDir > /dev/null
+
+for p in $(ls *.md | sort -r)
 do
-  pubdate=$($g "pubdate:" $p | $sed 's/pubdate: //')
-  title=$($g "title:" $p | $sed 's/title: //')
-  slug=$($g "slug:" $p | $sed 's/slug: //' | $tr -d \[:blank:\])
+  pubdate=$(grep "pubdate:" $p | sed 's/pubdate: //')
+  title=$(grep "title:" $p | sed 's/title: //')
+  slug=$(grep "slug:" $p | sed 's/slug: //' | tr -d \[:blank:\])
   if [ -z "$pubdate" ] || [ -z "$title" ] || [ -z "$slug" ]
   then
     echo "warning: missing at least one of: pubdate, slug, title in ${p}"
@@ -54,16 +61,17 @@ do
     echo "<h2 class=\"title\">${title}</h2>" >> $htmlIndex
     echo "<a class=\"pubdate\" name=\"${slug}\" href=\"https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog#${slug}\">${pubdate}</a>" >> $htmlIndex
     echo "<div class=\"post\">" >> $htmlIndex
-    $g -v "pubdate:" $p | $g -v "title:" | $g -v "slug:" |$pd -fmarkdown -thtml >> $htmlIndex
+    grep -v "pubdate:" $p | grep -v "title:" | grep -v "slug:" | $lp --mode "html" | pandoc -fmarkdown -thtml >> $htmlIndex
     echo "</div>" >> $htmlIndex
 
+
     # Gopher
     echo "0${title}	${slug}.txt" >> $gopherIndex
     gopherPostPath="${gopherPath}/${slug}.txt"
     echo "# ${title}" > $gopherPostPath
     echo >> $gopherPostPath
     echo "_published ${pubdate}_" >> $gopherPostPath
-    $g -v "pubdate:" $p | $g -v "title:" | $g -v "slug:" >> $gopherPostPath
+    grep -v "pubdate:" $p | grep -v "title:" | grep -v "slug:" | $lp --mode "gopher" >> $gopherPostPath
 
     # Gemini
     echo "=> gemini://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/${slug}.gmi ${title}" >> $geminiIndex
@@ -71,7 +79,7 @@ do
     echo "# ${title}" > $geminiPostPath
     echo >> $geminiPostPath
     echo "_published ${pubdate}_" >> $geminiPostPath
-    $g -v "pubdate:" $p | $g -v "title:" | $g -v "slug:" >> $geminiPostPath
+    grep -v "pubdate:" $p | grep -v "title:" | grep -v "slug:" | $lp --mode "gemini" >> $geminiPostPath
   fi
 done
 

posts/0001_newblog.md

@@ -6,19 +6,15 @@ I made a blog. I haven't had one in years. When I did it was mostly for dream lo
 
 Another reason I'm making one of these again is self-actualization. Historically I've thought very poorly of myself and agonized over anyone actually caring what I posted. Now, I'm just excited to share whatever I'm excited about or mentally chewing on, not out of self-aggrandizement, but because the stuff I find interesting is interesting because I find it interesting. It's a very cozy tautology. I'm not interested in building a following or crafting a brand: just sharing what inspires me in an honest way while still keeping some of myself to myself.
 
-Finally, I like to mark time with the discovery of artifacts. I'm always hunting for inspiring things--books, sites, objects, people--and feel an urge to catalogue them so I can be re-inspired in the future. I post on social media about these things sometimes, but social media is uniquely unsuited to reflection and later perusal. I liked Tumblr for this to an extent but never got comfy posting there; too many numbers and buttons and noise there for me to feel like I could collect my thoughts or feel like I was posting for myself instead of a hypothetical audience that might "like" something. I also don't like being beholden to corporate platforms.
+Finally, I like to mark time with the discovery of artifacts. I'm always hunting for inspiring things--books, sites, objects, people--and feel an urge to catalogue them so I can be re-inspired in the future. I post on social media about these things sometimes, but social media is uniquely unsuited to reflection and later perusal. I liked Tumblr for this to an extent but never got comfy posting there; too many numbers and buttons and noise there for me to feel like I could collect my thoughts or feel like I was posting for myself instead of a hypothetical audience that might "like" something. I also don't like being beholden to (LINK https://twitter.com/nate_smith corporate platforms).
 
 Some initial posting fodder:
 
 * Going through a decade's worth of unsorted bookmarks and posting interesting finds
-* Reviews or pre-reviews of 1990s primary "cyber media" that I collect like old academic books on hypertext culture and trashy web magazines
+* Reporting on 1990s primary "cyber media" that I collect like academic books on hypertext and trashy web magazines
 * Project ideas that I'll never get to
 * Project ideas that I have gotten to
 * My "religious" interests in Discordianism and Hermeticism
 * Fiction/poetry/essays 
 
-Technically speaking, this is all powered by some markdown files with custom metadata embedded in it and a <100 line bash script(0).
-
-TODO: decide on link formatting/processing. Considering a (LINK _url with protocol_ _title_) macro that either replaces with anchor tag for html or creates a footnote link in gopher or gemini style.
-
-=> https://git.tilde.town/vilmibm/blog/src/branch/trunk/make.sh 0: this blog's bash script
+Technically speaking, this is all powered by some markdown files with custom metadata embedded in it, a <100 line bash script, and a Go program for handling a little linking macro. I wanted to be able to author links in a consistent way but have sensible renderings in HTML, Gemini, and Gopher. All of this, including posts, can be found in (LINK https://git.tilde.town/vilmibm/blog this repository). I considered a static site generator...but I prefer scripting my own thing wrt blogging. It keeps me humble and I find that I don't use most of the features of off the shelf things.