We have two sitautions to account for:
1. Old posts had both uppercase and lowercase letters in slugs; and
2. Some ids changed.
Lighttpd can't convert to lowercase and having a bunch of separate redirects
in my webserver configuration for the id changes is messy. So, this script
is intended to be called only when a post contains an uppercase character in
the path.
I had wanted to avoid _any_ sort of dynamic scripts. Oh well.
All other redirects are handled in the websevrer configuration (which isn't
part of this repo atm).
Rather than having Pandoc generate the id, which has the potential to change
over time and cause 404s, let's just generate the slug from the filename so
that the ids will never change. This also solves the awkward question of
what the filename should be, since it was previously something arbitrary.
This mass rename was accomplished via this simple shell script:
for p in *.meta; do
slug=$( recsel -P slug "$p" | xargs basename )
mv -v "${p/.meta/.md}" "${p:0:10}-$slug.md"
done
with minor manual tweaks where I saw fit. Of course, now I have some pretty
long filenames, which is undesirable.
The next step is to compare it with the slugs currently on mikegerwitz.com
and make them match. That's the next commit, and should be pretty simple.
I didn't originally intend for all of this to be in a single commit. But
here we are. I don't have the time to split these up more cleanly; this
project is taking more time than I originally hoped that it would.
This is a new static site generator. More information to follow in the
near future (hopefully in the form of an article), but repo2html is now
removed. See code comments for additional information; I tried to make it
suitable as a learning resource for others. It is essentially a set of
shell scripts with a fairly robust build for incremental generation.
The site has changed drastically, reflecting that its purpose has changed
over the years: it is now intended for publishing quality works (or at least
I hope), not just a braindump.
This retains most of the text of the original pages verbatim, with the
exception of the About page. Other pages may have their text modified in
commits that follow.
Enhancements to follow in future commits.
Mike Gerwitz