blog update

.gitignore

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ index.html
 blog-tmp.html
 public/index.html
 public/rss.xml
+mdf-blog

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+- If using a precompiled version of mdf-blog, place the `mdf-blog` executable
+  in this directory (project root).
+- Use `./new.sh` to create new blogpost in ./blogs. This will open your
+  editor defined by the EDITOR environment variable.
+- Use `./run.sh` to generate all output files in "./public"
+- Use `USERNAME="your username" PASSWORD="your password" ./push.sh` to
+  push to server.

blogs/day6.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ author: Rakarake
 pubDate: Fri, Mar 27 2026
 ---
 Warframe.
+Erm, yeah.
 
 ![a spinning golden banana](./golden-banana.gif "Oh Banana")
 

blogs/day7.md

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-title: A statement
+title: Infrastructure complete
 author: Rakarake
-pubDate: Fri, Mar 27 2026
+pubDate: Sat, Mar 28 2026
 ---
-Kyuuuuuuu! 🐳
+It's been done 🐍🥰💕.
+

blogs/day8.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+title: We love slop
+author: Rakarake
+pubDate: Sat, Mar 28 2026
+---
+🐖🐖

blogs/day9.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+title: NEW MDF MEMBER IN AGES
+author: Rakarake
+pubDate: Wed, Apr  1 2026
+---
+Welcome Loriik!
+
+Huge moment for the MDF, the interview process was long and tedious.
+Hundreds of candidates. Many work hours. (real).
+

flake.lock

@@ -1,21 +1,5 @@
 {
   "nodes": {
-    "flake-compat": {
-      "flake": false,
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1696426674,
-        "narHash": "sha256-kvjfFW7WAETZlt09AgDn1MrtKzP7t90Vf7vypd3OL1U=",
-        "owner": "edolstra",
-        "repo": "flake-compat",
-        "rev": "0f9255e01c2351cc7d116c072cb317785dd33b33",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "edolstra",
-        "repo": "flake-compat",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
     "flake-utils": {
       "inputs": {
         "systems": "systems"
@@ -66,28 +50,11 @@
         "type": "github"
       }
     },
-    "nixpkgs_3": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1771043024,
-        "narHash": "sha256-O1XDr7EWbRp+kHrNNgLWgIrB0/US5wvw9K6RERWAj6I=",
-        "owner": "NixOS",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "3aadb7ca9eac2891d52a9dec199d9580a6e2bf44",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "NixOS",
-        "ref": "nixos-25.11",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
     "root": {
       "inputs": {
         "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
         "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs",
-        "rust-overlay": "rust-overlay",
-        "zig-overlay": "zig-overlay"
+        "rust-overlay": "rust-overlay"
       }
     },
     "rust-overlay": {
@@ -122,42 +89,6 @@
         "repo": "default",
         "type": "github"
       }
-    },
-    "systems_2": {
-      "flake": false,
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1681028828,
-        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "nix-systems",
-        "repo": "default",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
-    "zig-overlay": {
-      "inputs": {
-        "flake-compat": "flake-compat",
-        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs_3",
-        "systems": "systems_2"
-      },
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1772540502,
-        "narHash": "sha256-HXlx2i9gGH2HKfBSMihKCvU6DQMVlR4iyOulkSOe+Cg=",
-        "owner": "mitchellh",
-        "repo": "zig-overlay",
-        "rev": "03fa375def0685b8ce282f118452532845f16a20",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "mitchellh",
-        "repo": "zig-overlay",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
     }
   },
   "root": "root",

flake.nix

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 {
-  description = "Rust flake";
+  description = "mdf-blog";
   inputs =
     {
       nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"; # or whatever vers
       flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
       rust-overlay.url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay";
-      zig-overlay.url = "github:mitchellh/zig-overlay";
     };
   
-  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils, rust-overlay, zig-overlay, ... }:
+  outputs = { nixpkgs, flake-utils, rust-overlay, ... }:
     flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
       let
         overlays = [ (import rust-overlay) ];
@@ -17,33 +16,20 @@
         };
       in
       {
-        devShell = pkgs.mkShell rec {
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath buildInputs}";
+        defaultPackage = pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
+          name = "mdf-blog";
+          pname = "mdf-blog";
+          src = ./.;
+          cargoLock = {
+            lockFile = ./Cargo.lock;
+          };
+        };
+        devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
           packages = with pkgs; [ 
             rustc
             cargo
             rust-analyzer
-            gcc
-            zig-overlay.packages."x86_64-linux".master
-          ];
-          buildInputs = with pkgs; [
-            libdisplay-info
-            libgbm
-            #mesa
-            libinput
-            pixman
-            seatd
-            udev
-            libxkbcommon
-            wayland
-            wayland.dev
-            wayland-protocols
-            libGL
-            vulkan-headers vulkan-loader
-            vulkan-tools vulkan-tools-lunarg
-            vulkan-extension-layer
-            vulkan-validation-layers # don't need them *strictly* but immensely helpful
-            #libglvnd
+            curl
           ];
         };
       }

new.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+git pull
+
+printf "name of file (e.g. day67.md): "
+read filename
+cargo run -- new > blogs/$filename
+$EDITOR blogs/$filename
+

push.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+git add blogs
+git commit -m "blog update"
+git push
+
+for file in $(find public -type f)
+do
+    echo "uploading: $file"
+    curl -u "$USER:$PASSWORD" https://mdf.farm/api/${file#*/} --upload-file $file
+done
+

run.sh

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 #/bin/sh
-cargo run -- html blogs/* > blog-tmp.html
+cargo build && cp target/debug/mdf-blog . || true
+
+BLOGS=$(ls $PWD/blogs/*)
+
+./mdf-blog html $BLOGS > blog-tmp.html
 sed template.html -e '/INSERT_HERE/{
     r blog-tmp.html
     d
 }' > public/index.html
-cargo run -- rss blogs/* > public/rss.xml
+./mdf-blog rss $BLOGS > public/rss.xml
 

src/main.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 use std::{collections::HashMap, io, path::Path};
 use markdown::to_html;
-use rss::{Channel, GuidBuilder, ItemBuilder};
+use rss::{Channel, ChannelBuilder, GuidBuilder, Item, ItemBuilder};
 
-fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
+fn main() -> Result<(), String> {
     let posts = std::env::args().skip(2).map(|f| {
-        let contents = std::fs::read_to_string(f.clone())?;
+        let contents = std::fs::read_to_string(f.clone()).map_err(|e| format!("when reading file {f} got {e}"))?;
+        
         // parse metadata, then the rest to html
         let mut metadata: HashMap<String, String> = contents.lines().take_while(|l| {
             // header ends here
@@ -26,35 +27,36 @@ fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
         }).concat();
 
         Ok((to_html(&body), metadata))
-    }).collect::<Result<Vec<(String, HashMap<String, String>)>, io::Error>>()?;
+    }).collect::<Result<Vec<(String, HashMap<String, String>)>, String>>()?;
 
     if let Some(mode) = std::env::args().skip(1).next() {
         match mode.as_str() {
             "rss" => {
-                let mut channel = Channel::default();
-                channel.title = "MDF blog huge".to_string();
-                channel.link = "https://mdf.farm".to_string();
-                channel.description = "The MDF blog".to_string();
-                channel.generator = Some("Rakabaka's tooling".to_string());
-                channel.items = posts.iter().map(|(body, metadata)| {
-                    let guid = metadata.get("guid").map(|guid|
-                        GuidBuilder::default()
-                            .value(guid)
-                            .permalink(false)
-                            .build()
-                    );
-                    ItemBuilder::default()
-                        .title(metadata.get("title").map(|title| title.clone()))
-                        .description(Some(body.clone()))
-                        .pub_date(metadata.get("pubDate").map(|title| title.clone()))
-                        .link(metadata.get("guid").map(|g| format!("https://mdf.farm/#{g}")))
-                        .guid(guid)
-                        .build()
-                }).collect();
+                let channel = ChannelBuilder::default()
+                    .title("MDF blog huge".to_string())
+                    .link("https://mdf.farm".to_string())
+                    .description("The MDF blog".to_string())
+                    .generator(Some("Rakabaka's tooling".to_string()))
+                    .items(posts.iter().map(|(body, metadata)| {
+                         let guid = metadata.get("guid").map(|guid|
+                             GuidBuilder::default()
+                                 .value(guid)
+                                 .permalink(false)
+                                 .build()
+                         );
+                         ItemBuilder::default()
+                             .title(metadata.get("title").map(|title| title.clone()))
+                             .description(Some(body.clone()))
+                             .pub_date(metadata.get("pubDate").map(|title| title.clone()))
+                             .link(metadata.get("guid").map(|g| format!("https://mdf.farm/#{g}")))
+                             .guid(guid)
+                             .build()
+                       }).collect::<Vec<Item>>())
+                     .build();
                 print!("{}", channel);
             },
             "html" => {
-                print!("{}", posts.iter().enumerate().map(|(i, (body, metadata))| {
+                print!("{}", posts.iter().rev().enumerate().map(|(i, (body, metadata))| {
                     let guid = metadata.get("guid").unwrap_or(&i.to_string()).clone();
                     let title = metadata.get("title").map(|title| format!("<h1>{title}</h1>")).unwrap_or("".to_string());
                     let pub_date = metadata.get("pubDate").map(|pub_date| format!("<i>{pub_date}</i>")).unwrap_or("".to_string());

upload.sh

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-rsync -rvz -e 'ssh -p 8022' --progress public/* rakarake@chat.mdf.farm:/data/website