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| λ sorrel.dev |\
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it's my personal home page.
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it's for putting stuff on the web.
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it's written in racket and serves (mostly) static html pages. there's some little
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javascript in there - https://htmx.org/
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why's there some javascript? because javascript is still kinda important to me??
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mostly cause i think this htmx project is neat and allows me to do some cool things
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without sending several megabytes. and the pages still work without allowing scripts.
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so
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| HOW IT'S BUILT |
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it's a racket web server that uses xml library to generate some valid html.
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i write my little posts in xml-like s-expressions. (not for everyone! but i like the
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expressivity!) someday, i might turn it into a proper dsl with support for htmx's
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~funky~ syntax and a little more distance from it's host language, but not this day.
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i make generous use of `racket/web-server` with a dispatcher for `hx/` prefixed content
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(snippets of html), and plain `/` (for rendering full pages.) handlers build the
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content from the little sexpr .txt files (they're not valid racket on they're own,
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they get read and evaluated as data.) it's all real small and everything, but i figured
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why not save the generated html in a `static/` directory so it doesn't need to be built
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on each request? so that's what happens.
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that's the server! it's compiled and hosted on bunk.computer. it's all very cute.
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| WHAT'S ON THERE |
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so, yea, it's all running over there and it's serving up some html (with a little dash
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of javascript.) so what's on it?
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right now, the plan's for
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~UNSETTLED THOUGHTS~
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it's like a blog. just thinking out loud. or talking about projects that aren't
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ready to get their "tires kicked" yet
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~SETTLED THOUGHTS~
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it's like a portfolio. links to stuff. deployed stuff. pictures of stuff. a
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home for everything that's done enough to need a home. or projects with
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"minimally kickable tires"
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~THOUGHTS ABOUT THOUGHTS?~
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there's some "root" resources. yr typical about page, y'know with some
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biographical information, or whatever. "errata" like:
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~a page about the site itself.
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~maybe a link page with some links to things i like or do as a person with other people
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in the world
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~a tag index and indices for tags
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the structure of things is such that: there's no templating per se. if the request
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has the path prefix "/hx/" you just get little snippets of html. the htmx is there to
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stitch that stuff together. make sure yr browser insesrts the response where it
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belongs in the page and i wipe my hands of the the thing. otherwise you get a page
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stitched together from all the bits and bobs.
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so don't be surprised if yr response is just an ~unsettled thought~ without any header
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or footer or any of that fanciness.
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| HOW TO POST |
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let's talk about the posting. so you write up a little bit of s-expressified xml-like
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plain text works of astounding eloquence; how do you get the server to generate some
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stuff for you? i wrote a little utility for that. it's called "publish" and it uses a
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#lang package a friend made for making cli tools called
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[cli](https://docs.racket-lang.org/cli/index.html)
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the tool is called "publish" and it needs some flags to build a thing right.
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```
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$ publish -i in-progress/ex.txt \ # -i is for the input (i keep em in in-progress/")
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-r unsettled \ # -r is for the resource "type" (see "WHAT'S ON THERE?")
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-t ecology,art,computer \ # -t is for comma separated tags
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-l "An Example Text" \ # -l is for head_l_ine (it means title)
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-d "a short description-like a sentence long ideally"
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# there's also an "-x" flag to do a "test run" before publishing. it'll generate
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# stuff in publish-test/ including a "staging database" (it's csv files)
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```
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there's a couple things this'll do.
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- first it'll take yr post and do some processing, add a footer with metadata and tags.
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- it'll also update the "database" of csv files for the resource type and for all of
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the associated tags.
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- this generates new index files for the resource type, and the tags.
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- if the post introduces a new tag, a new tag index gets made.
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- the atom feed gets updated with the uri and the relevant info about the post.
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(it's on the to-do list to embed the post in the feed, cause i like to read my rss
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in cli, but i'm also a hypocrite that wants people to visit my page!)
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- finally it moves the input file to an archive folder.
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(in the future i'll make an update tool for posting updates to existing stuff!)
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so that's simple enough.
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