This is the source of jonallured.com.

First boot a server with bin/start and point your browser at http://localhost:3090 to see the site.

From there we can create a new post like so:

# for just any random post:
$ bin/new_post "very good post"

# for a Week In Review post:
$ bin/wir_post

This will create the draft and move to a new branch for that post. From here it's time to actually write the blog post. Once that is done and you're ready to publish then run this:

$ bin/publish_post source/_drafts/very-good-post.md

That will finalize the post file including generating the social image. It will create a commit and push to GitHub and even create the PR. When that PR is merged then the deploy process starts and when that's done then the post is live.

I should always prefer to deploy from CI via the process of opening and merging a PR but if it ever comes up then deploying locally should be as easy as:

$ bundle exec rake deploy

This assumes that the .env file has the correct DEPLOY_TARGET so just make sure that is in place.

In addition to automating the posing process, I have a few Rake tasks that automate routine things:

In order to update a rotten link first find the link and then fix like this:

$ bundle exec rake 'fix_rot[http://www.example.com/path/to/page.html]'

That will add an entry to the data file for rotten links and spit out the replace command to run. Once that's all done then you can create a commit and push.

Data for the Feeds I Read page comes from a Settings page in Feedbin. Download that OPML file and then:

$ mv ~/Downloads/subscriptions.xml ./
$ bundle exec rake update_feeds
$ rm subscriptions.xml

Similar to above the way to update the list of Podcasts I listen to starts with downloading an OPML file from the Account page on Overcast.fm. Once that's downloaded then do this:

$ mv ~/Downloads/overcast.opml ./
$ bundle exec rake update_podcasts
$ rm overcast.opml