RSS

I’ve been making extensive updates to this site, including updating the urls of some blogs, a task I’ve put off for far too long.

As such, if you follow this RSS feed you’ll likely see them re-populate your RSS feed. I regret this error: Have some milk.

Changes

Most changes you’re unlikely to notice:

  • Migrated to a proper git repo for version control.
  • Refactored the build script for this site to be more modular
  • Spent some time cleaning up old artifacts
  • Created some better documentation so I don’t have to remember things like what format to put the date frontmatter in.
  • Built some utilities to make posts easier to create
  • git hooks that validate I adhere to my own yaml frontmatter and file naming convention


This actually prevented a mistake I made while publishing this post.
  • Removed notes.html in favor of a single blog.html that contains both blogs and notes.
  • Drastically simplified the blog.html page.

  • Added a new utility that will automatically parse markdown links in the content and add them to the yaml frontmatter of a post which looks something like this although I’m thinking about adding other useful metadata such as datePublished and dateLastUpdated.
title: "Building Gold Images With Packer + GCP"
date: 2025-04-30
tags: ["cloud","linux"]
description: "Notes on how to setup packer within GCP"
type: note
links:
  - "https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer"
  - "https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/docs/provisioners/file"
  - "https://cloud.google.com/build/docs/building/build-vm-images-with-packer"
  - "https://github.com/hashicorp/packer"
  - "https://deepwiki.com/hashicorp/packer"
---
  • Render the yaml front matter in the “Links on this page” section at the bottom of the post. I was inspired by linky-goodness over at pluralistic


The first iteration of this was to simply append the links to the bottom of the document, but that felt icky. Adding it to the frontmatter means I can do other cool things with those links in the future without having to re-extract them from the bottom of the markdown

  • Connected an obsidian vault to this site’s content folder instead of awkwardly moving files and their associated images from my main vault. It worked for a while but felt icky.
  • Removed herobrine