How I upload to my blog

I use hugo to build my blog from a bunch of Markdown files into a genuine static site. Since it’s all local files I use Neovim and the command line to edit and update everything.

Creating a new post/ micropost

I use this quick and dirty script to generate a new micropost:

#!/bin/sh
dt=$(date '+%d%m%Y_%H%M%S')
year=$(date '+%Y')

cd ~/path/to/website
hugo new content/posts/$year/$dt.md
st -e nvim content/posts/$year/$dt.md

This makes a new micropost from my hugo template and opens a new terminal so that I can immediately edit it in Neovim. The script for regular posts is pretty much identical but it opens a different template so that I can fill in the title and chose whether or not to save it as a draft. Here’s the script in action.