commit 52ecd63e06b5af689e837b0cd51e945a4b0430ae
parent f3478eaceccb273d584d2de2652c559748edf874
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:07:30 -0500
Fix broken links in scripting blog post
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/http/pages/blog/scripting-my-way-to-success.md b/http/pages/blog/scripting-my-way-to-success.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
<div class="byline">
<b>Written By:</b> Jake Bauer |
<b>Posted:</b> 2020-06-08 |
- <b>Last Updated:</b> 2020-06-08
+ <b>Last Updated:</b> 2021-01-22
</div>
Something that I love about *nix systems is the composability of all of the
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ blogs and feeds I follow on my [links page](/links#blogroll). Of course I didn't
want to do this manually since that would be a huge pain. Instead, like whenever
I encounter a problem, I turned to scripting. I came up with a script I call
`generate-blogroll.sh` ([view the script
-here](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/generate-blogroll.sh))
+here](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/item/http/generate-blogroll.sh))
which composes the export functionality of `newsboat`, the standard `awk`,
`cut`, `tr`, `sort`, and `sed` utilities along with `vim`/`nvim`'s scripting
abilities and `rsync` for uploading the changed files.
@@ -45,22 +45,9 @@ That's the beauty of scripting and the *nix environment. Any time I encounter a
similar problem, I write a script to handle it for me. Need to parse stats from
a log file? Script it. Need a way to download the content of an entire website?
Script it. Need to test how fast a program runs, then average the runtimes?
-Script it. Need to generate an entire website from markdown files? Script it (I
-did for this site!).
-
-In addition to the blogroll script, I have a [script to compile this
-website](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/generate-blogroll.sh),
-a [script to publish new blog
-posts](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/publish), a [script to
-update the site's uptime
-display](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/tuptime-update.pl),
-and even a [script to handle uploading files to my
-webserver](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/uploadwatch.sh).
-Those are just the scripts for this website! Some of them need to be rewritten
-for portability to other *nix systems, and some are from when I first started
-this site so they're not as good as my more recently-written scripts, but that's
-alright because they do the thing they're supposed to do and haven't failed me
-yet.
+Script it. Need to generate an entire website from markdown files? Script it ([I
+did for this
+site](https://git.sr.ht/~jbauer/paritybit.ca/tree/master/item/http/compile)!).
Scripting is also great for saving time at work; the more time saved doing
menial tasks, the more time can be spent doing interesting things. Plus, you get
