aiep/ssg: add week-1 report

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+title: Week 1
+lead:
+date: 25 March 2024
+summary: Bootstrap our Static Site Generator
+---
+# Anirudh’s Progress
+
+- Built the markdown to HTML renderer using the [Goldmark](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark) library
+- Set up a web server to preview the rendered content locally
+- Implemented a front matter YAML parser to retrieve page metadata
+- Designed a reusable system of partials to build page layouts
+- Implemented a recursive renderer for the content/ and static/ directories
+
+## What's next?
+
+- Restructure the project
+- Refactor and improve the live reload functionality
+- Implement the post tagging system
+
+---
+# Adhesh’s Progress
+
+- Migrated to [Cobra](https://cobra.dev) for better **CLI integration**.
+- Implemented important flags for serving a local **HTTP server** (---serve), and to explicitly mention the **port** to use (---addr).
+- Implemented **Real-Time Directory/File change** watcher using [fsnotify](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify), and Hot-Reload system for reserving updated files instantaneously.
+- Cleaned and sanitised some parts of the codebase.
+- Included early optimizations to some functions of the codebase using goroutines and sync operations.
+
+## What's next?
+
+- Making **main.go** the entry point for the code.
+- Fix issues with the watcher, and clean up the goroutine issues.
+- Try studying about **parallelizing code functions**, and implementing it.
+- Add a **developer** mode/flag for profiling the performance of the application (---dev)
+- Look into [Huge theme](https://themes.gohugo.io) compatibility.
+- Try integrating **JavaScript** in templates.
+
+---
+# Hegde’s Progress
+
+- Switched to automatic filename parsing
+- Implementing Draft Posts
+- Complete CSS styling
+- Cleaned up unnecessary post rendering
+
+## Whats Next:
+
+- JS injection as plugins into pages and individual posts
+- Draft post rendering
+- Chronological Feed for posts
+
+---
+# Nathan’s Progress
+
+- Setup CI using GitHub actions which builds and deploys the SSG to [gh-pages](https://ssg-test-org.github.io)
+- Setup `robots.txt` to (currently set to prevent indexing until we reach a v1.0 release)
+- Implemented `sitemap.xml` to tell search engines how our site is structured
+- Fixed `baseURL` it now, uses absolute paths from root `/` when loading stylesheets
+
+## What's next?
+
+- SEO optimization (verify semantic HTML generation)
+- OGP tags in page headers