Recently I added some command line aliases to more quickly add new posts to Hugo, the static site generator that powers this blog. So for example I can type hnp New Post and it will run hugo new --kind post-bundle posts/2021-06-19-new-post. Then using Hugo’s archetypes it will create a new blog post in the format I like, with the date prefixing the folder name. I used a bash function instead of a true alias to allow me to write out the titles in plain english.

Recently I’ve been playing with the iOS Shortcuts app to make checklists, draft blog posts, time my coffee, combine images and other quick tasks. If you haven’t given it a try yet, it’s essentially drag and drop programming environment that allows you to quickly and easily create powerful programs that run on your iOS device. It has built in ’actions’ for a large amount of features, from creating for loops, to more complex actions like image resizing, and running scripts over ssh.

Over the past few months I’ve been trying to transform this website from a resume/portfolio into a cheaper, and more easy to update (and more fun to use) blog. To do so I created a workflow to post blog entries from my iPad and iPhone.