Journal

I have a working version of these scripts, still have to fine tune some details, but for my use case is enough.

Also I still have to give some love to the documentation. I’m having problems with the use of subshells, so I will try to solve the issues I’m having without using subshells.

Then again yesterday I started to write some scripts to deploy my astro static sites locally or in my home server, which doesn’t have a public static ip.

The scripts are in this [ repo ]

I am still working on it, so it is not actually working right now. I’m hoping I can finish it by the end of the day, if I got time to get some programming done today.

Update

In the end I did have some time to do some programming but not much so instead I just added the little arrow to the site, to go back to the top.

Today I wanted to work a little on my site, so I decided to clean up the news section. Adding a new dependency for generating an excerpt of the news and moving the content to a dialog.

Also using named slots to clean the Layout from the dialog contents. I have to repeat this for the other sections in the index page.

Today I started with the pagination, which basically requires load all the entries, sorted them, reverse them and sliced them in chunks of 10 entries.

While doing that I found out that… well actually I was reminded that javascript doesn’t behave well with numbers. Even with javascript it didn’t want to work.

Also added a snippet to VS Code to add these entries quicker.

It seems kind of obvious but there is no hint in the Astro documentation for rendering various pieces of content in the same page, you can only use the <Content> component once per component.

Then it hit me, I can achieve that by creating a component, passing the entry from the page and rendering the entry to the render method of astro:content.

Maybe I can write a blog post about it.