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Create Devlog Entry Workflow

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This post was imported from a personal note. It may contain inside jokes, streams of consciousness, errors, and other nonsense.

From last time:

  • Write a Python script to rename the files in content/devlog to be just YYYY-MM-DD
  • See if I can just use hugo new content content/devlog/YYYY-MM-DD/index.md to generate a new entry.
  • Make a one-liner that figures out the date automagically.

Got the files all renamed pretty easily. Hugo server is not starting, though. I’ve been having trouble on and off with that. It hits the thirty second timeout and suggests that there’s an infinite loop.

I was able to get it to build by dropping the search function but still got the error intermittently. What the heck is going on?

I have lots of media, including some pretty big gif animations. Using a flag to render static content to disk seems to have solved it for me.

hugo server --renderStaticToDisk

Hard disk

Aaand here is the one-liner:

hugo new content devlog/`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`

Use this to see tabs and line endings:

cat -e -t -v

Reflection
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I’m still a little concerned that editing these entries is gonna be annoying, in particular, adding images. I’ll have to copy the file to the folder then type the file name whereas previously I could just drag and drop. I wonder if I’ll end up with a workflow where I create the entry in Obsidian and edit it there, then have some way to export it to Hugo after.

We’ll see.