Made blogging system better

9 files changed, 113 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/blog/README.md b/blog/README.md
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+++ b/blog/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Nathan's shitty blog
+I am known for making things more complex than they need to be and this is a good example of that.
+
+All the articles are in articles/ and articles.xml stores information about each article. feed.xml and index.html are generated from the articles.xml file using the scripts.
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diff --git a/blog/articles.xml b/blog/articles.xml
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+++ b/blog/articles.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<channel>
+  <item>
+    <title>Dream log 1</title>
+    <name>dreamlog1</name>
+    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
+    <file>articles/dreamlog1.xml</file>
+  </item>
+
+  <item>
+    <title>Overthinking</title>
+    <name>overthinking</name>
+    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
+    <file>articles/overthinking.xml</file>
+  </item>
+</channel>
diff --git a/blog/articles/dreamlog1.xml b/blog/articles/dreamlog1.xml
index f7fc19f..00469c8 100644
--- a/blog/articles/dreamlog1.xml
+++ b/blog/articles/dreamlog1.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <article>
-  <p id="dreamlog1">
+  <p>
     Last night I had the type of dream that inspires new stories. In my dream the favorite author:
     Kurt Vonnegut, was a unix and emacs user. And he wrote a book about someone in some government
     position or something along those lines who spent there entire life fucking around with unix
diff --git a/blog/articles/overthinking.xml b/blog/articles/overthinking.xml
index f64bc32..218710b 100644
--- a/blog/articles/overthinking.xml
+++ b/blog/articles/overthinking.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <article>
-  <p id="overthinking">
+  <p>
     Whenver I decide to add something to this website I always overthink on how
     to add the thing. In general I just overthink how I will do everything. It
     slows me down. Right now I am overthinking trying to think what to write
diff --git a/blog/feed.xml b/blog/feed.xml
index 90c8441..00ea328 100644
--- a/blog/feed.xml
+++ b/blog/feed.xml
@@ -7,18 +7,17 @@
     <image>
       <url>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/images/icon.png</url>
       <title>Nathan's shitty blog</title>
-      <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org</link>
+      <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog</link>
     </image>
-
-
+    
     <item>
       <title>Dream log 1</title>
       <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog#dreamlog1</link>
       <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
       <description>
         <![CDATA[
-<article>
-  <p id="dreamlog1">
+          <article>
+  <p>
     Last night I had the type of dream that inspires new stories. In my dream the favorite author:
     Kurt Vonnegut, was a unix and emacs user. And he wrote a book about someone in some government
     position or something along those lines who spent there entire life fucking around with unix
@@ -29,20 +28,21 @@
     Through all the things left behind on the unix system the last person on earth learned to
     not only survive but live well as the last person. They even became a unix power user through
     the guides left behind.
-    </p>
+  </p>
 </article>
-      ]]>
-      </description>
-    </item>    
 
+        ]]>
+      </description>
+    </item>
+            
     <item>
       <title>Overthinking</title>
       <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog#overthinking</link>
       <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
       <description>
         <![CDATA[
-<article>
-  <p id="overthinking">
+          <article>
+  <p>
     Whenver I decide to add something to this website I always overthink on how
     to add the thing. In general I just overthink how I will do everything. It
     slows me down. Right now I am overthinking trying to think what to write
@@ -59,8 +59,11 @@
     Next time you overthink do what I do: eat junk food.
   </p>
 </article>
+
         ]]>
       </description>
     </item>
+            
   </channel>
 </rss>
+    
diff --git a/blog/generate.sh b/blog/generate.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3ded0e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blog/generate.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#! /usr/bin/sh
+
+./generate_feed.py > feed.xml
+./generate_html.py > index.html
diff --git a/blog/generate_feed.py b/blog/generate_feed.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a8eec23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blog/generate_feed.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python3
+
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
+
+def main():
+    tree = et.parse("articles.xml")
+    root = tree.getroot()
+
+    feed_xml = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<rss version=\"2.0\">
+  <channel>
+    <title>Nathan's shitty blog</title>
+    <description>The coffee powered blog of chaos</description>
+    <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog</link>
+    <image>
+      <url>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/images/icon.png</url>
+      <title>Nathan's shitty blog</title>
+      <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog</link>
+    </image>
+    """
+
+    for item in root:
+        with open(item.find("file").text, "r") as fp:
+            feed_xml += """
+    <item>
+      <title>{title}</title>
+      <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog#{name}</link>
+      <pubDate>{date}</pubDate>
+      <description>
+        <![CDATA[
+          {article}
+        ]]>
+      </description>
+    </item>
+            """.format(
+                title=item.find("title").text,
+                name=item.find("name").text,
+                date=item.find("pubDate").text,
+                article=fp.read()
+            )
+
+    feed_xml += """
+  </channel>
+</rss>
+    """
+    print(feed_xml)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/blog/generate.py b/blog/generate_html.py
index 09c2320..7360fa3 100755
--- a/blog/generate.py
+++ b/blog/generate_html.py
@@ -9,25 +9,21 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
 # Generates a html table for the article
 # I use table layout because fuck you
 def make_article_table(article_info, article):
-    html_text = """
-    <table border="1" width="60%">
-        <tr><td><h2>{title}</h2>--- {date}</td></tr>
-        <tr><td>{article}</td></tr>
-    </table>
-    """
-
-    html_text = html_text.format(
+    return """
+        <table border="1" width="60%">
+            <tr><td><h2 id=\"{name}\">{title}</h2>--- {date}</td></tr>
+            <tr><td>{article}</td></tr>
+        </table>
+    """.format(
+        name=article_info["name"],
         title=article_info["title"],
         date=article_info["pubDate"],
         article=article
     )
-    
-    return html_text
 
 def main():
-    tree = et.parse("feed.xml")
+    tree = et.parse("articles.xml")
     root = tree.getroot()
-    channel = root[0]
 
     template = ""
 
@@ -38,13 +34,17 @@ def main():
     article_html = ""
 
     # Get articles from rss
-    for item in channel.findall("item"):
+    for item in root:
         article_info = {
             "title": item.find("title").text,
+            "name": item.find("name").text,
             "pubDate": item.find("pubDate").text
         }
+
+        article = ""
         
-        article = item.find("description").text
+        with open(item.find("file").text, "r") as fp:
+            article = fp.read()
 
         # Remove article tags.
         article = article[article.find("<article>")+9::]
diff --git a/blog/index.html b/blog/index.html
index 1cf2096..20e1de4 100644
--- a/blog/index.html
+++ b/blog/index.html
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ table {
 
         <!-- Python will insert the articles from rss here -->
         
-    <table border="1" width="60%">
-        <tr><td><h2>Dream log 1</h2>--- Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:00 GMT</td></tr>
-        <tr><td>
-  <p id="dreamlog1">
+        <table border="1" width="60%">
+            <tr><td><h2 id="dreamlog1">Dream log 1</h2>--- Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:00 GMT</td></tr>
+            <tr><td>
+  <p>
     Last night I had the type of dream that inspires new stories. In my dream the favorite author:
     Kurt Vonnegut, was a unix and emacs user. And he wrote a book about someone in some government
     position or something along those lines who spent there entire life fucking around with unix
@@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ table {
     Through all the things left behind on the unix system the last person on earth learned to
     not only survive but live well as the last person. They even became a unix power user through
     the guides left behind.
-    </p>
+  </p>
 </td></tr>
-    </table>
+        </table>
     
-    <table border="1" width="60%">
-        <tr><td><h2>Overthinking</h2>--- Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:42:00 GMT</td></tr>
-        <tr><td>
-  <p id="overthinking">
+        <table border="1" width="60%">
+            <tr><td><h2 id="overthinking">Overthinking</h2>--- Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:42:00 GMT</td></tr>
+            <tr><td>
+  <p>
     Whenver I decide to add something to this website I always overthink on how
     to add the thing. In general I just overthink how I will do everything. It
     slows me down. Right now I am overthinking trying to think what to write
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ table {
     Next time you overthink do what I do: eat junk food.
   </p>
 </td></tr>
-    </table>
+        </table>
     
     </center>
 </body>