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Tutorial: 11ty Nekoweb rss feed

mxeggsalad@proton.me (mxeggsalad) — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

This WILL be edited in post for clarity, because I'm trying to balance comprehensivity with speed.
If you don't use 11ty, I can still give a decent explanation of how to make an rss feed manually, that is up to nekoweb's required spec, but I wouldn't in any case suggest doing that.

Also, this is how I personally use the plugin, with manual templates, so best of luck with virtual templates.
Also also, I'm running Eleventy 2.0.1 and eleventy-plugin-rss 1.2.0.

(heavy credit to moosyu ahaha. someone threw me their code and i basically just added some things and made all the variables to suit me)

Prerequisites

Installation of the Eleventy RSS plugin (including putting necessary syntax in your .eleventy.js)
Configuring post collections
Adding a "title" frontmatter to your post files (id also suggest adding manual dating to your frontmatter)

Template

Include this in your eleventy.js "module.exports = function (eleventyConfig)"

eleventyConfig.addFilter("excerpt", (post) => {
    const content = post.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
    return content.substr(0, content.lastIndexOf(" ", 200)) + "...";
  });

Place this in a file with the extension .njk located anywhere convenient (i have mine in a folder labled rss in my src directory)

---json
{
  "permalink": "allblogs.xml", <!-- Name of the output file -->
  "eleventyExcludeFromCollections": true,
  "metadata": { <!-- Self explanatory metadata, set this to whatever you desire
  (note, this is for the FEED, not your site hehe) -->
    "title": "FEEDTITLE", 
    "description": "FEEDDESCRIPTION",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "URL-TO-YOUR-SITE",
  }
}
---

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
  <title>{{ metadata.title }}</title>
  <description>{{ metadata.description }}</description>
  <link>{{ metadata.url }}</link>
  {%- for post in collections.COLLECTIONNAME | reverse %}
    {%- set absolutePostUrl = post.url | absoluteUrl(metadata.url) %}
    <item>
    <title>{{ post.data.title }}</title>
    <description>{{ post.content | excerpt }}</description>
    <link>{{ absolutePostUrl }}</link>
    <guid>{{ post.data.title | slugify }}</guid>
    <pubDate>{{ post.date.toUTCString() }}</pubDate>
    <author>{{ metadata.author.email }} ({{ metadata.author.name }})</author>
    <source url="{{ permalink | absoluteUrl(metadata.url) }}">{{ metadata.title }}</source>
    </item>
  {%- endfor %}
</channel>

This isnt just drop in, please edit the top metadata section, aswell as the variable "COLLECTIONNAME" in

{%- set absolutePostUrl = post.url | absoluteUrl(metadata.url) %}

Guid's

For note, guid's must be fully unique. Here they are set as the slugified post title (e.g. "tutorial-11ty-nekoweb-rss-feed"). The literal only problem with this, is that you cant name a post the same thing twice. Just don't do that and you'll be fine.

Alongside that topic, if you'd prefer your guid's to be full urls to your blogpost, change it to

<guid isPermaLink="true">{{ absolutePostUrl }}</guid>

Manually entering posts

why :(
Anyways, you'd just need to follow the same template, and copy and paste the <item> each time you want to make a new post.

Aswell, to follow the rss spec, you would need to format dates in the RFC 822 date format (something like "Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT")

(removed <source> from this as its fiddly and not fully necessary)

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
  <title>XXXX</title>
  <description>XXXX</description>
  <link>LINKTOYOURWEBSITE</link>
  
  <item>
    <title>POSTTITLE</title>
    <description>POSTCONTENT/DESCRIPTION</description>
    <link>POSTLINK (use the full url)</link>
    <guid>UNIQUE ID</guid>
    <pubDate>PUBLISHDATE</pubDate>
  </item>

</channel>

generally you want this to act as a small preface to your article, and have it link over to the full content on your website. be sure to actually link it to your website when all is said and done.

After finishing either of these you just upload/save your feed to your site, and direct nekoweb to where its located

Adventures in i3wm

mxeggsalad@proton.me (mxeggsalad) — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Firsthand, what is i3wm?

The i3 window manager, is a tiling window manager, which in simple terms, decides the positioning of windows on your desktop.

Basically just a "huge fucking nerd" way of managing your windows, and usually (without configuration) looks like this:

Why would you even use that

Because its funny???

No but seriously this time.
I generally prefer it because it greatly reduces the amount of friction between me and my computer, I don't have to worry about a program starting as floating instead of full-screen for some reason, I don't need to worry about manually moving everything around, or having useless title bars laying around, I just do a summon keybind, super + d or super + enter, prefixed by super + v/h depending if I want my existing windows vertically split or horizontally, and let it do it's thing and get to work.

The theming support is, mwa chefs kiss, pictured above is how it looks by default, but you can greatly change that by editing a few config files and installing some different applications, as seen bellow.

I have mine styled to the wonderful wonderful Catppuccin colour-scheme, and ive attempted to make everything as minimal and small in size as possible.

Transitioning

God my blogs have been about that a lot lately (you haven't written one in a month or so what are you on about)

Transitioning was actually reasonably easy, I still use Fedora 40 as my base, but I started out by reinstalling on my desktop with the i3 spin and went from there.
After that, fixing small problems like screen tearing, Nvidia drivers, and FUCKING VIM KEYBINDS, everything else was a breeze (fixed screen issues with Picom, drivers with an install script I found, and i just chucked the vim keybinds out of my config)

Regarding my laptop, I didn't even have to reinstall my OS (though i probably should), simply having to install the i3 package and swap which session I log into on my login manager (which is just whatever gnome uses)

I still have to go through the bout of uninstalling gnomes DE (another reason to reinstall...), but that wont be on the top of my schedule for a while.

Configuration

Go look at them i guess

Configuration is piss easy, pop into the files, open a wiki, commit and push changes. I adore.

Thats another point of friction that gets alleviated by using this, I can simply change whatever I want and not have to deal with any repercussions.

Want to boot a new deamon on startup? Great! just put exec --no-startup-id XXXX in your config, save and reload and it's live and on your system.

Same with other things like swapping out a system service for a different one. i3 either doesn't even have that service to begin with, or it's as simple as swapping them in the config file.

It's just got everything I need and nothing else, couldn't recommend it more.
Oh speaking of which

Trying it out

If you'd like to try i3wm on your system with absolutely no strings, just install it with your preferred package manager

sudo dnf install i3

sudo apt install i3

and run it from your login manager or grub or whatever when you next boot. Don't like it? uninstall it and move on.

Project link for more info.

It should also be noted that i3 is an X11 window manager, and there is a drop in replacement for it called "sway" which is exactly the same, just on Wayland.

New Domain!

mxeggsalad@proton.me (mxeggsalad) — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

tl;dr, I've bought up a custom domain for my website :D

This is going to be a really short blogpost, buttt its relevant so who cares.
I bought it with the service spaceship.com and I'm managing it through cloudflare (sadly)

All of that has gone swimmingly, and I'm looking at paying only AUD$25 a year for it.
Nice!

Now for the reason I chose pet, I'm mentally ill and am a stupid dog. Woof Woof, treat me like your p3t/ref

11ty-ing my hog

mxeggsalad@proton.me (mxeggsalad) — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

HOLYFUCK AHHHHH

it's

ITS DONE

Shite guys,
Its taken me a while but I've finally finished learning this admitedly cool engine.

Goddd did it take a while though

Alright for the uninitiated, 11ty is a pretty nice site generator which perked my ears a while ago because of how annoyingggg working with large ass html files is.

~~(then i lost all motivation for my site for like 1-2 months...)~~

But eventually I found that gosh it has a myriad of other features that can help me so so much.

Mainly, its features relating to automated layours help me the most I'd say

I can just chuck all of my boilerplate or more complex layouts into completely separate files!!! Lifesaver seriously

Even though this was the initiating factor for me, another big feature keeping me here is the automation
omg the automation

Alright so this is a snippet from my blogs page

It's am awesomeeee piece of automation which I abridged from a 11ty tutorial/showcase video.
It basically just takes each entry from the "mainblog" group and adds them to a list :D and it can go so much further (if id only use my brain for a second longer)

Now. Why the hell did this take so long.
Firstly, I'm a little stupid.

Secondly, atom feeds are a bitch.
I could've totally gotten the hang of it sooner, but goddd it kept me in the ring for a while.

It isn't the most elegant thing in the world, but I've gotten it so 11ty takes .njk files from a folder and parses them into atom feed files on my root.
GOOD ENOUGH.

(sadly this means i need to nuke and ruin my older rss feeds, sorry if anyone was actually using them)

(oh also, im way too lazy to actually add image support to the feeds, so give me a moment to work that out)

Oh yeah I forgot to say, it does markdown!!
Matter of fact I'm writing this in markdown right now!

God this is such a novel thing for me.

11ty actually converts a lot of other files into html files, as I mentioned before njk -> xml, but you can find that on their own website.

All of this to say, I'M BACK!
And pretty much, as motivated as I'll ever be!

Nope 2022

mxeggsalad@proton.me (mxeggsalad) — Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

God, where to begin?

This movie is most definitely a 10/10 for me, for so SO many reasons, a big one would totally be its ability to elicit emotion.
And that's a big part of movies, the reaction the audience gets from it. Well really this idea exists for any form of art, they make you get the feels.

Nope's goal as a thriller, is to either scare the shit out of you, or to well, thrill you!

I think this is one of the biggest draws for me with the movie, every second is engineered to thrill, confuse, and sometimes scare you. Note, sometimes.
That's another part of Nope I like, how it often doesn't harness fear all too much.
Yeah there's a few scenes with a jumpscare or two, but most of the time, you're met with a giant, unimaginably large, sense of

Dread

God, the movie reeks of it.

Every scene just feels so uncomfortable, and I honestly hated watching this movie for the first time.
Even in "normal" scenes everything feels off, how the characters act, less and less people being in the area, even just how bliss things are sometimes. And the scenes where shit goes down are even worse, you hear screams howling in the distance, see a house washed in blood and broken wedding rings, it's plain in view what's going to happen to our protagonists at some points of the movie, but we just have to sit back and watch in horror.

Definitely a point where the dread factor starts rolling down the hill is when you see the digestion scene (at a bit after 1 hour in), this fucking thing doesn't abide by anything we understand,
you can't train it, you can't catch it, you especially cant run away,
it tortures you in its gullet until it washes you with a thick helping of its acid, it's some unstoppable force that a movie horse trainer, his sister, and some fucker from tesco, have to somehow kill.

This thing fills me with so much emotion, its disgusting and I hate it and how much dread it fills me with.

(Side-note, LOVE the black bars removal of this scene, honestly I've only noticed on rewatch, but it uses black bars a LOT and loves to toggle them)

Gosh, if I'd have to say, the other greatest emotion I find in this film, or motivation as I could also say, is
(sorry I have to do this twice ahah)

Resilience

I'll say it, the Indomitable human spirit goes CRAZY hard in this film.

It manages it so well with the motivations of the characters too, their motivations to keep hitting the brick wall are so fucking stupid, the losses are outweighing their gains at this point, but they're so understandable to the audience. Who doesn't want to be the first?

The first to create the perfect film

The first to get a UFO/UAP money shot and reap the rewards

The ends that these characters go to to reap these neigh fruitless actions, either motivated with something past their life, their existence, their legacy, or with the act of finally finishing what others tried and failed to do, to finish the damn job, just for them. I TOTALLY didn't cry writing this shut the fuck up.

Alright that's really all I can think of, for now.
This is the first time I've actually like, written something for myself, not just for some english class.
I will learn to use better structure :) soon :) I may even update this who knows

Info

mxeggsalad@proton.me (mxeggsalad) — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

These little infants have been screaching, taking up our space, infiltrating our mothers vaginas and their hearts, it must be stopped at ALL COSTS.
I propose that we AXE all of those babies at a moments notice, or else they will take over the ENTIRE WORLD.
All will be lost, we shall be locked out of society, to fend for ourselves like DOGS.

(Disclaimer, I absoloutely love children, those little buggers are so cute. Harm inflicted on them is a moral sin and I would never condone that. This page was just made as a joke, and was a VERY early addition to the site.)