---
title: Site progress
summary: Some small new things added to the website
category: 💻
publishedAt: 1641207600000
---

Its 2022 now, crazy how quickly last
year flew by.

I've recently made a couple changes
to the site so I thought I'd make a
post listing them:

- <a href="../rss.xml">RSS</a>
  should work nicer in readers
- Added a theme toggle button,
  clicking it will swap between dark
and light mode
- Added indent toggle. Some people
  prefer left align while others
prefer center align.
- Removed dithering. Caused issues
  with light theme and not worth the
extra bandwidth for dithered images.

So far I'm really enjoying working
on this site. It's making me
appreciate how much I can do without
libraries. This sites content is
still built using a shell script
however I might try write either a
`C` or `Rust` program to manage
drafts and all that jazz.

RSS was a fun challenge btw. It's
really hard to find any guides
online so I basically had to follow
the RFC. Here's the script I use to
generate my feed:

```sh
# Create RSS feed
RSS_ITEMS=()
echo "Creating RSS feed..."
cd "$BLOG_LOCATION"
for file in $BLOG_LOCATION/*.md; do
  NAME="$(basename "$file")"
  TITLE="$(grep "^title:" "$file" | sed 's/[^ ]* //')"
  DESCRIPTION="$(grep "^summary:" "$file" | sed 's/[^ ]* //')"
  EDIT_TIME="$(git log -1 --pretty="format:%ci" "$file" | cut -d" "  -f2)"
  PUB_DATE="$(date -d"${NAME%$FILE_PREFIX.md}" +"%a, %d %b %Y ${EDIT_TIME:-$RSS_TIME} $TIMEZONE")"
  DRAFT="$(grep "^draft:" "$file" | sed 's/[^ ]* //')"
  GUID="$(echo "$FILENAME $PUB_DATE" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d" ")"

  if [ ! "$DRAFT" ]; then
    RSS_ITEMS+=("
      <item>
        <guid isPermaLink='false'>${GUID}</guid>
        <title>${TITLE}</title>
        <link>https://${DOMAIN_NAME}/blog/${NAME%$FILE_PREFIX.md}.html</link>
        <description>${DESCRIPTION:-$TITLE}</description>
        <pubDate>${PUB_DATE}</pubDate>
      </item>
    ")
  fi
done
cd "$PARENT_PATH"
RSS_STRING=$(printf '%s' "${RSS_ITEMS[@]}" | tr -d '\n')
sed -i -e "s|RSS_PLACEHOLDER|$RSS_STRING|g" ./out/rss.xml
```

I'm finding shell more and more
powerful as I use it more. I know
I've still got heaps to learn
though.