Adventures in Tech Land, Season 2
2019/12/01, day 6

org export

Most of the past day was spent on working with the org-mode export. The manual is relatively clear about which options one can use. I added a "UP" link and a "HOME" link (interesting to see that even if you add only one the other is automatically created. I guess that's a bug...)

I've just been reminded that I'm not automatically in web-mode when I write here. I don't get the end tag completion. I need to add a hook for html files...

add web-mode hook for html files
add options to capture directly to adventuresintechland.org
fix commit message ?
add a "0" to single digit days in the page title
automatically generate "nth day" with a counter

back to css

I know basic CSS syntax, but I forgot most of the basic properties. I had to do a lot of trial and error, compare with the old css files I had... And doing all this I also modified a lot of things here and there.

magit, at last

I knew it was preferable to do small commits to make sure modifications were reversable. So I tried to do that, and my current commit list for today's batch is the following:

d9610b8 gh-pages latest org-to-html export
3c2036b add/edit links to today
d23433c sort items in .org file
016ff10 removed line breaks in .org file
a1fe0f4 FIX dates edge cases...
ecb6812 today's template output
c5fd696 template "we're not there yet" -> inside the page
86af1fb new css for the org file export
7fa9f16 fix output path creation
a8e9fbe new todo for 12/30 + html export
e51d9c3 date formatting error
54bf091 add link to todo file
9b73d31 add myPreviousDay function for further development
9f99d41 rss feed doesn't work

I spent a lot of time in magit, and it was fun. And it's interesting to see how using magit forces me to focus on fixing things little by little, while org-mode helps me register all the things I don't want to fix now. Nice combination of tools. And all that thanks to emacs :)

I don't know if magit is fun because it is intrinsically fun and easy to use, or because I know enough of git to make sense of it now. I guess it's a little of both.

Ok, enough for today. I'll be fixing a few bits here and there and then push before starting a nice and sunny Sunday :)