Date: 2024-11-28
Previously, the title in the filename (that shows up on the homepage/index) and the title in the actual post were two separate pieces of data. If I want them to be consistent, I had to manually make sure they were the same. Now, I updated the static site generator (self plug) to use the filename as the source of truth and "inject" the title and date into the content before it gets converted to html.
Initially, I processed the file and then rewrote it, but there's some issues with multiple titles. For example, if I change the title, it would be difficult to replace the original title as opposed to adding a new title [^1]. We need to occasionally add a title because I want the title to automatically sync over, and it had to be written to the file because the markdown library operates based on an input file. However, by random chance, I looked at which functions my markdown to html converter library exported, and I saw that they also have a version that works based on str input instead of being given an input path file. This way, I will generate the synced information every time without modifying my original input, so there's no issues with writing this information to the file.
[^1]: Though, now that I think about this, maybe I could've done something with markdown comments.