Starting to move blog entries to normal pages, added books and links pages

2024-08-14 07:54:13 -04:00 · 2024-08-14 07:54:13 -04:00 · 796a481ab2
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--- a/links.txt
+++ b/links.txt
@ -95,3 +95,45 @@ author: Ed Zintron
 type: blog
 date_added: 2024-08-13
 description: Tech journalist and critic. I find that his writing starkly points out things that I have felt "wrong" in tech over the past decade and dives into why.
+---
+url: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/unfolding 
+title: Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process 
+author: Henrik Karlsson
+type: article
+date_added: 2024-08-13
+description: A wonderful and thoughtful perspective on developing a deep understanding of things in life to guide ourselves to something that fits us personally.
+---
+url: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think 
+title: How to think in writing 
+author: Henrik Karlsson
+type: article
+date_added: 2024-08-13
+description: Using writing as a tool for thinking deeply.
+---
+url: https://berjon.com/public-interest-internet/ 
+title: The Public Interest Internet
+author: Robin Berjon
+type: article
+date_added: 2024-08-13
+description: What if the internet were designed and maintained for the people that used it?
+---
+url: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing 
+title: Don't End the Week with Nothing
+author: Patrick McKenzie
+type: article
+date_added: 2024-08-13
+description: Good perspective on how to choose what to work on. Preferentially work on what you can take with you regardless of where you go.
+---
+url: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html 
+title: The Computer Built to Last 50 Years
+author: Lionel Dricot
+type: article
+date_added: 2024-08-13
+description: Pondering on how we use computers and how we could design them to be tools that last.
+---
+url: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/just-your-handyman 
+title: Just Your Handyman
+author: Kurt Armstrong
+type: article
+date_added: 2024-08-13
+description: On work, and the satisfaction in personal small work and problem solving. Not everything needs to be big.
--- a/pages/AMindForNumbers.html
+++ b/pages/AMindForNumbers.html
@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 id: mfn
 title: A Mind for Numbers
-previous: sdl
-next: afh
-date: 2021-02-05
+date_created: 2021-02-05
+date_last_updated: 2021-02-05
+description: Thoughts on A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
 ---
 <h2>
    A Mind for Numbers
@ -103,6 +103,3 @@ If you can explain it in a way that they can understand you have a very good gra
    The more that we know of and use them the better off we will all be.
    So if this sounds interesting to you take a look at the book A Mind for Numbers and save on time and frustration when learning something new.
 </p>
-<p>
-    Thank you for reading.
-</p>
--- a/pages/DeepWork.html
+++ b/pages/DeepWork.html
@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 id: deepwork
 title: Deep Work
-previous: ewt
-next: habits
-date: 2021-02-27
+date_created: 2021-02-27
+date_last_updated: 2021-02-27
+description: Thoughts on Deep Work by Cal Newport
 ---
 <h2>
    Deep Work
@ -154,6 +154,3 @@ date: 2021-02-27
    It is a skill that is very rare today and is well worth developing.
    I certainly advise picking up a copy and giving it a read if you want to give yourself an edge in productivity.
 </p>
-<p>
-    Thanks for reading.
-</p>
--- a/blog/OnReading.html
+++ b/blog/OnReading.html
@ -1,16 +1,54 @@
-id: onreading
-title: On Reading
-previous: thestart
-next: mop
-date: 2021-01-06
+id: books
+title: Books
+date_created: 2021-01-06
+date_last_updated: 2024-08-13
+description: Root page for all things in the Awstin/Book vendiagram overlap
 ---
-<h2>
-    On Reading	
-</h2>
+<h2>Books</h2>
+<p>
+    I love to read.
+    It has been one of my dominant passtimes since I was quite young.
+    The amount that I read has varied a fair bit over the years.
+    From a book every few days to one every few months.
+    Depends what is going on in life and how much time I have to spend.
+    Though I feel like I am at my happiest with at least one book getting finished every few weeks.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Currently Reading</h4>
+<p>
+    Just finished Elantris.
+    Just started Wild Problems by Russ Roberts.
+    A book on making the sort of decisions that we can't make my just logically looking at the data.
+    Without a right or wrong answer, the bigger life questions.
+    Have been feeling stuck on one of those lately and as I was scrolling through the books on my e-reader this jumped out at me.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Read so far in 2024</h4>
+<ul class="no-bul">
+    <li>Elantris - Brandon Sanderson</li>
+    <li>The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han</li>
+    <li>Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson</li>
+    <li>Inversions - Iain M Banks</li>
+    <li>Morphotrophic - Greg Egan</li>
+    <li>Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds</li>
+    <li>Useful not True - Derek Sivers</li>
+    <li>Radicalized - Cory Doctorow</li>
+    <li>Rapture of the Nerds - Cory Doctorow + Charles Stross</li>
+    <li>Phoresis and Other Journeys - Greg Egan</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Reflections from Books I have read</h4>
+<ul class="no-bul">
+    <li><a href="/garden/deepwork">Deep Work</a></li>
+    <li><a href="/garden/mfn">A Mind for Numbers</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>
+    Why I Read
+</h3>
 <p>
    I think that reading does not quite get the credit for the marvelous thing it is in the public eye.
    It is pretty rare to hear people talking very much about reading anymore and the phrase “I don’t read” has become more and more common.
-    
 </p>
 <p>
    I would like to make a case for reading.
@ -30,7 +68,6 @@ date: 2021-01-06
    There is no way to communicate with anyone beyond that point in time.
    Oral traditions are the only method of communication older than writing and that runs into the space problems of needing to be with a storyteller.
    By reading I have access to the teachers from the entirety of recorded human history.
-    
 </p>
 <p>
    There are ideas and ways of thinking that have fallen by the wayside.
@ -44,7 +81,6 @@ date: 2021-01-06
    Reading is one of the few actions these days that force us to slow down, and focus on a single thing.
    You can’t chat while reading, you can’t watch a show, work, or eat very well (when I try to read and eat I end up spending more time finding my place than reading).
    In a world that increasingly moves faster and demands more of our time moments of slowness and peace are more valuable than ever.
-    
 </p>
 <p>
    Taking the time to absorb an idea, roll it around in your head, and come to conclusions about it is fantastic, almost meditative.
@ -53,7 +89,6 @@ date: 2021-01-06
    Spending the extra time with it forces us to think, let that initial gut reaction no longer be our only point of reference.
    I am not saying that the gut is always wrong, instinct and intuition are valuable tools, but more and more things are designed to take advantage of that system.
    It is much harder to do that to someone's critical thinking.
-    
 </p>
 <p>
    Reading is beautiful and often seems to be the cure to a lot of the ailments of the modern day.
@ -61,12 +96,10 @@ date: 2021-01-06
    When all our senses are constantly bombarded by all sorts of stimulation reading forces us to give them a rest, except for the occasional eye strain when you get into a really good book and can’t put it down.
 </p>
 <p>
-     It forces us to exercise our imagination.
+    It forces us to exercise our imagination.
    With modern technology our movies and shows are so realistic that we no longer have to use our imagination to picture things.
    I can’t help but think there is a massive benefit practicing being able to picture things we have not seen in our heads.
-    
 </p>
 <p>
    So that is my case for reading.
-    I hope my thoughts on the topic were interesting.
 </p>
--- a/pages/garden.html
+++ b/pages/garden.html
@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ description: Home page and starting point for exploring my digital garden
 </p>
 <ul>
    <li><a href="/blogroll">Blogroll</a></li>
+    <li><a href="/links">Links</a></li>
+    <li><a href="/garden/books">Books</a></li>
    <li><a href="/uses">Uses</a></li>
    <li><a href="/now">Now</a></li>
    <li><a href="/about">About</a></li>
--- a/pages/home.html
+++ b/pages/home.html
@ -32,18 +32,6 @@ description: Home page
    </a>
 </section><br>

-<section id="blog">
-    <h2>Blog</h2>
-    <h3>Most Recent</h3>
-    <ul class="no-bul" hx-trigger="load" hx-get="/api/recentarticles">
-    </ul>
-
-    <p>
-        For the full list see my <a href="/blog">Blog.</a>
-    </p>
-
-</section><br>
-
 <section id="garden">
    <h2>Garden</h2>
    <p>
--- a/pages/links.html
+++ b/pages/links.html
@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+id: links
+title: Links
+date_created: 2024-08-13
+date_last_updated: 2024-08-13
+description: Interesting links
+---
+<h2>Links</h2>
+<p>
+    A collection of links to interesting posts that I have found.
+    In a random order to shuffle what links are at the top.
+</p>
+<ul class="no-bul" hx-trigger="load" hx-get="/api/articlelinks">
+</ul>
+
--- a/src/html/api.rs
+++ b/src/html/api.rs
@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ pub fn get_router() -> Router {
        .route("/articles", get(blogs))
        .route("/recentarticles", get(recent_blogs))
        .route("/blogrolllinks", get(blogroll_links))
+        .route("/articlelinks", get(article_links))
 }

 async fn blogs(state: Extension<AppState>) -> impl IntoResponse {
@ -37,14 +38,23 @@ async fn recent_blogs(state: Extension<AppState>) -> impl IntoResponse {

 async fn blogroll_links(state: Extension<AppState>) -> impl IntoResponse {
    let db_pool = &state.db;
-    let blogroll_list: Vec<String> = get_blog_links_as_list(db_pool)
+    let blogroll_list: Vec<String> = get_links_as_list(db_pool, LinkType::BLOG)
        .await
        .expect("couldn't get blogroll links");

    blogroll_list.join("\n<hr>\n")
 }

-pub async fn get_blog_links_as_list(pool: &PgPool) -> Result<Vec<String>, Box<dyn Error>> {
+async fn article_links(state: Extension<AppState>) -> impl IntoResponse {
+    let db_pool = &state.db;
+    let blogroll_list: Vec<String> = get_links_as_list(db_pool, LinkType::ARTICLE)
+        .await
+        .expect("couldn't get blogroll links");
+
+    blogroll_list.join("\n<hr>\n")
+}
+
+pub async fn get_links_as_list(pool: &PgPool, link_type: LinkType) -> Result<Vec<String>, Box<dyn Error>> {
    let mut links: Vec<Link> = match Link::read_all(pool).await {
        Ok(a) => a.iter().map(|x| *x.clone()).collect(),
        Err(_) => Vec::new(),
@ -55,7 +65,7 @@ pub async fn get_blog_links_as_list(pool: &PgPool) -> Result<Vec<String>, Box<dy

    let list: Vec<String> = links
        .iter()
-        .filter(|link| link.link_type == LinkType::BLOG)
+        .filter(|link| link.link_type == link_type)
        .map(|link| {
            let title: String = match &link.title {
                Some(t) => t.to_string(),
--- a/src/html/root.rs
+++ b/src/html/root.rs
@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ pub fn get_router(pool: PgPool) -> Router {
        .route("/uses", get(uses))
        .route("/ai", get(ai))
        .route("/blogroll", get(blogroll))
+        .route("/links", get(links))
        .route(
            "/robots.txt",
            get(|| async { Redirect::permanent("/assets/robots.txt") }),
@ -62,3 +63,7 @@ async fn ai(state: Extension<AppState>) -> Result<impl IntoResponse, StatusCode>
 async fn blogroll(state: Extension<AppState>) -> Result<impl IntoResponse, StatusCode> {
    get_page(&state.db, "blogroll").await
 }
+
+async fn links(state: Extension<AppState>) -> Result<impl IntoResponse, StatusCode> {
+    get_page(&state.db, "links").await
+}