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billmorris.io

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How to post to the blog

(Because I'm always forgetting the key stuff)

Create a new shell post

cd blog

DATE_ISO=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
echo "---
layout: post
title: \"MyTitle\"
date: \"${DATE_ISO}T12:00:00-04:00\"
author: \"Bill Morris\"
cover-img: \"/assets/img/${DATE_ISO}_cover.png\"
tags: [\"tag1\", \"tag2\"]
subtitle: \"Punchy lead-in\"
---
" > _posts/${DATE_ISO}-post-name.md

Add content to the new file, save the post.

Adding a cover image

Be sure to add a cover image by using the cover-img: tag in the metadata header of the post. Add a string with the relative URL of whatever image best suits the post.

Citing publications

When adding footnotes in the markdown syntax ([^note1], etc), refer to WorldCat to easily copy Chicago-format citations.

Adding a bunch of gifs

If you've got a bunch of .mp4 files from, say, a Twitter archive, you can convert them all at once to gifs with these parameters:

for m in $(ls *.mp4); do
  g="${m%.*}"
  ffmpeg -itsscale 0.3 \
    -i $m \
    -vf "fps=5,scale=600:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" \
    -loop 0 \
    ${g}.gif
done

Publishing a new post

jekyll build -d ../shoals

. . . and push the result to github.