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A Productive Morning

Writing some PowerShell to make a 5 minute job take mere moments.

https://guides.18f.gov/engineering/languages-runtimes/css/

Up early for no reason, or at least no reason I want to get into, and thinking about how to update while away from my desk.

Rather than copy-and-paste a week's worth of files to save as drafts, I had the idea to write a script to create a month's worth of drafts. And, by write a script, I do, of course, mean cobble together a few Stack Overflow answers.

# Get Year and Month, defaulting to current year and month
param(
    [int]$Year = [datetime]::Now.Year,
    [int]$Month = [datetime]::Now.Month
)

# Frontmatter with a paramter to fill the date in later
$Template =
@"
---
draft: true
title: 
description: 
date: {0}
---
"@

# Create new array with numbers from 1 to DaysInMonth
1..([datetime]::DaysInMonth($Year, $Month)) |
    # For each element in array
    ForEach-Object {
        # Generate name for new file in YYYY-MM-DD format
        # To do so, we create new DateTime Object with day from pipeline and year and month from above
        $Date = ([datetime]::ParseExact("$_/$Month/$Year", 'd/M/yyyy', [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::InvariantCulture)).ToString('yyyy-MM-dd')
        $FileName = $Date + ".md"

        # Correctly join path with current directory and new file name
        $Path = Join-Path -Path (Get-Location).Path -ChildPath "\content\blog\"$FileName

        # IF the file exists, move on to the next day
        if (Test-Path $Path -PathType Leaf) {
            # You'd think this should be continue. I did. Since this block is 
            # actually an anonymous function being run on each object in the 
            # foreach collection separately, the correct answer is return.
            return 
        }

        $Content = $Template -f $Date

        # Create new file
        New-Item -ItemType File -Path $Path -Value $Content
    }

About the -f operator in PowerShell

https://ss64.com/ps/syntax-f-operator.html

Next step is to find a way to edit and push from my phone, but that's not looking like it will be a cake walk.

https://pixeljets.com/blog/poor-mans-sre/

https://japanese-creative-books.com/product/illustration/houses-with-a-story/

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/03/20/autodev.aspx

Can I edit and push from the GitHub app?

Current Status:

https://learnbyexample.github.io/substitution-with-ripgrep/

https://thehtml.review/03/