README.md

040 code blog

Purpose

This repo contains the source of the 040 code blog.

The blog

The 040 code blog is an initiative from Developers that have a relation with the city Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. The name 040 points to area code used at the time we used the old landline for calling our friends and family.

Articles on this blog are our ideas, experiments and opinion. For each blog post we make a nice picture from a place in Eindhoven that we like for some reason.

Credits

This blog is created with the Gatsby, an awesome framework to create a static blog using React and GraphQL. And to get even faster started we have based the blog on the React Starter gatsby-starter-morning-dew

How to contribute

Fork the repo, do your changes and create a pull request. Everybody is welcome to write an article. The main branch to work from is: source

The master contains the static page created by travis-ci and gatsby.

How to run

yarn
yarn dev

Visit: http://localhost:8000 Gatsby also delivers a graphiql interface in development mode: http://localhost:8000/___graphql

Writing a post

Directory

Create a directory with the following format: YYYY-MM-DD-<slug> in the /content/posts/ directory. Simply copy an existing posts directory f.e. this post.

Post

Change the index.md file. This is basically where you write your post.

Images

Images needed for the post can be stored in the same directory and referred to in the post with:

<a href="#">
    <img src="./image-name.png" height="100%" width="100%" alt="alttext">
</a>

Frontmatter

A frontmatter is needed for Gatsby to know how to display the post.

Example of a frontmatter:

---
title:      "Git Bisect"
slug:       "2019/03/13/git-bisect"
subtitle:   "Find the bug-introducing commit with Git Bisect"
date:       2019-03-13
cover:      "./background.png"
coverLink:  "https://goo.gl/maps/jSKonnGYR1u"
coverDescription: "Frits Philipslaan"
imageFb:    "./2019-03-13-git-bisect-fb.png"
imageTw:    "./2019-03-13-git-bisect-tw.png"
asciinema:  true
type:       post
tags:
  - 'git'
  - 'rust'
authors:    
  - jeroen
---

Most fields are self-explaining. We formatted the slug with backslashes so the urls are nice. cover is the header image. coverLink and coverDescription are optional. When given, a link to google maps is shown in the right bottom corner. imageFb and imageTw are thumbnails for socialmedia. They can be automatically created by running: yarn generatePostPreviewImages. asciinema can be set to true to use the awesome asciinema player. type must be set to post. authors must be set to an existing author in the content/authors directory. If you're new, feel free to add yourself as an author.

More info on asciinema player

To add terminal recordings we use asciinema.

Once you have captured the json of you recording add the file to a folder in static/<slug>. This folder will be served as static content.

In the post you have to enable asciinema by setting the frontmatter property. In the post you can now embed the asciinema player. The src attribute is not post processed. It should match with the folder that you have created as static content.

---
slug:       "<slug>"
...
asciinema:  true
---

...

<asciinema-player src="/<slug>/source.json"
  cols="166" rows="18">
</asciinema-player>

License

MIT

Authors

Contributors