From ece0f56d29509685f9b61642056f15f84a8a0726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Kosarek Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 14:12:17 -0400 Subject: cleanup: quick update, removing outdated items --- posts/hello.html | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- posts/hello_world.html | 41 ------------ posts/plato_1.html | 88 ------------------------ posts/sitemap.html | 4 +- posts/tag_books.html | 36 ---------- posts/tag_food.html | 34 ---------- posts/tag_personal.html | 36 ---------- posts/tag_programming.html | 34 ---------- 8 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 posts/hello_world.html delete mode 100644 posts/plato_1.html delete mode 100644 posts/tag_books.html delete mode 100644 posts/tag_food.html delete mode 100644 posts/tag_personal.html delete mode 100644 posts/tag_programming.html (limited to 'posts') diff --git a/posts/hello.html b/posts/hello.html index ea52aaa..8469f4e 100644 --- a/posts/hello.html +++ b/posts/hello.html @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ -
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I've recently fallen in love with org-mode, specifically when I use it with org-roam. I find the whole workflow of creating, tagging, and - later on - searching for information on my computer to be very elegant. On top of that, now that I have the time, I want to begin writing blog posts to better work out my thoughts. With both of these things in mind, I am again turning to the universal tool for human prospering: org-mode. This time, I want to see how it can help me turn a simple org file into a blog post on my website. My requirements are:

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As a pilot, we are going to use this org file that I am currently writing (hello.org) as our guinea pig. The goal is to have this org file be our very first blog post.

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The next thing will be to remove some of the generated items that I didn't ask for, namely the table of contents, author, section numbers, creation time stamp, and the validation link.

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Styling & Code Highlighting

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Next thing on our list is custom styling. This can be achieved by first installing the htmlize package from melpa / elpa. The EmacsWiki describes this as "a package for exporting the contents of an Emacs buffer to HTML while respecting display properties such as colors, fonts, underlining, invisibility, etc" (reference). If used "out-of-the-box", the buffer will be exported to HTML with all of the styles inlined (e.g. if you underline something in your org file, you will generate a <span style="text-decoration: underline">...</span>). However, we are more interested in styling everything by ourselves: we don't want htmlize making assumptions about what underlining means to us! Luckily, htmlize gives us the option to export with class names instead of inline styles so that we can specify each style for ourselves.

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     font-family: "Consolas" sans-serif;
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     text-decoration: underline;
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-pre span.org-builtin                     {color:#006FE0;font-weight:bold;}
-pre span.org-string                      {color:#008000;}
-pre span.org-keyword                     {color:#0000FF;}
-pre span.org-variable-name               {color:#BA36A5;}
-pre span.org-function-name               {color:#006699;}
-pre span.org-type                        {color:#6434A3;}
-pre span.org-preprocessor                {color:#808080;font-weight:bold;}
-pre span.org-constant                    {color:#D0372D;}
-pre span.org-comment-delimiter           {color:#8D8D84;}
-pre span.org-comment                     {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-1pre span.org-outshine-level-1           {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-2            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-3            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-4            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-5            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-6            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-7            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-8            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-outshine-level-9            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-1  {color:#707183;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-2  {color:#7388d6;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-3  {color:#909183;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-4  {color:#709870;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-5  {color:#907373;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-6  {color:#6276ba;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-7  {color:#858580;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-8  {color:#80a880;}
-pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-9  {color:#887070;}
-pre span.org-sh-quoted-exec              {color:#FF1493;}
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-pre span.org-css-property                {color:#00AA00;}
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+pre span.org-string                      {color:#008000;}
+pre span.org-keyword                     {color:#0000FF;}
+pre span.org-variable-name               {color:#BA36A5;}
+pre span.org-function-name               {color:#006699;}
+pre span.org-type                        {color:#6434A3;}
+pre span.org-preprocessor                {color:#808080;font-weight:bold;}
+pre span.org-constant                    {color:#D0372D;}
+pre span.org-comment-delimiter           {color:#8D8D84;}
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+pre span.org-outshine-level-2            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
+pre span.org-outshine-level-3            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
+pre span.org-outshine-level-4            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
+pre span.org-outshine-level-5            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
+pre span.org-outshine-level-6            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
+pre span.org-outshine-level-7            {color:#8D8D84;font-style:italic}
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+pre span.org-rainbow-delimiters-depth-2  {color:#7388d6;}
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+pre span.org-sh-quoted-exec              {color:#FF1493;}
+pre span.org-css-selector                {color:#0000FF;}
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Our first two criteria have been met! Next on the list is solving images. As an example, let's use this squirrel image that I found online with an open source license. The ideal situation would be:

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Figure 1: A Cute Squirrel

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Let's add the creation date below the title next. To start, we will modify the publish command to remove the title (:with-title nil) and, in its place, show a preamble bit of HTML that contains a formatted div with the title and the "last modified" span.z

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For every org file in my _posts folder, I would like to create a link to the generated HTML file at the /posts.html page of my website. You can think of this as the "directory" of all posts. My criteria is:

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I changed the title to "Matthew's Blog Posts".

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I like to include the creation date on the blog posts. To do this, we can use org-publish-find-property to find the date property of the org file. Afterward, we can format a string that includes our formatted timestamp and the org-publish-sitemap-default-entry, which is just a link with the title of the post.

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I use Org-roam for all of my note-taking and, in the next blog post, I plan to demonstrate how I will hook up my Org-roam note-taking workflow to my blogging. In the meantime, just know that we can add tags to the top of our org files like this:

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There are many more customizations that I plan to do on this system in the future, but I plan to leave this for now so that I can actually get to some blogging. I will proofread and fix my mistakes as time goes on, but this should be a good jumping off point for anyone interested in using org for their own blogging system.

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Euthyphro: the pious and the god-loved

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