Add featured post flag for homepage

CONTENT_BRIDGE.md

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ Optional fields currently understood by the sites include `updatedDate`,
 `image`, and `authorImage`. Prefer colocated images in the body over remote
 stock images.
 
+Use `main-feature: true` on at most one post per blog to pin a fixed featured
+post on the `neeldhara.blog` homepage. The homepage still shows the two newest
+non-featured posts for that blog, sorted by `pubDate`.
+
 The Quarto import also preserved `sourceCategories` and `sourcePath`. Astro
 strips unknown schema fields, but they are useful in Obsidian for provenance.
 

obsidian-plugin/microblog-sync/README.md

@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ Search for **Blog Family Sync** in the command palette:
 
 Preview starts the matching Astro dev server if the configured local URL is not
 already responding. Publish syncs first, runs that target's build command,
-commits staged content changes, and pushes to Forgejo.
+commits staged content changes, and pushes to Forgejo. For the seven `allblogs`
+targets, publish also refreshes and pushes the `home` repo's
+`content/blog-index.json` so `neeldhara.blog` redeploys with the newest
+featured/latest entries.
 
 ## Notes
 

obsidian-plugin/microblog-sync/main.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const NPM = `${NODE_BIN}/npm`;
 const BLOGS_ROOT = "/Users/neeldhara/forgejo/blogs";
 const ALLBLOGS_REPO = `${BLOGS_ROOT}/allblogs`;
 const MICRO_REPO = `${BLOGS_ROOT}/micro`;
+const HOME_REPO = `${BLOGS_ROOT}/home`;
 
 const DEFAULT_TARGETS = [
   {
@@ -557,14 +558,41 @@ module.exports = class BlogFamilySyncPlugin extends Plugin {
 
     this.updateStatusBar(`Blog sync: pushing ${target.label}...`);
     const output = await this.runShellCommand(publishCommand, repoFolder);
+
+    let homeOutput = "";
+    if (path.resolve(target.repoFolder) === path.resolve(ALLBLOGS_REPO)) {
+      homeOutput = await this.publishHomeIndex();
+    }
+
     this.updateStatusBar("Blog sync: published");
     new Notice(
-      output.includes("No staged changes")
+      [
-        ? `No ${target.label} changes to publish.`
+        output.includes("No staged changes")
-        : `${target.label} changes pushed.`,
+          ? `No ${target.label} changes to publish.`
+          : `${target.label} changes pushed.`,
+        homeOutput
+          ? homeOutput.includes("No homepage index changes")
+            ? "Homepage index unchanged."
+            : "Homepage index pushed."
+          : "",
+      ]
+        .filter(Boolean)
+        .join(" "),
     );
   }
 
+  async publishHomeIndex() {
+    this.updateStatusBar("Blog sync: refreshing homepage index...");
+    const command = [
+      `${shellQuote(NPM)} run refresh:index`,
+      "git add content/blog-index.json",
+      'if git diff --cached --quiet; then echo "No homepage index changes to publish."; else git commit -m "Refresh homepage blog index"; fi',
+      "git push",
+    ].join(" && ");
+
+    return await this.runShellCommand(command, HOME_REPO);
+  }
+
   async ensureDevServer(target) {
     const baseUrl = normalizeBaseUrl(target.devServerUrl);
     if (await urlResponds(baseUrl)) {

obsidian-plugin/microblog-sync/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "microblog-sync",
   "name": "Blog Family Sync",
-  "version": "0.4.0",
+  "version": "0.5.0",
   "minAppVersion": "1.5.0",
   "description": "Sync the public Obsidian blog folders with the local Astro blog repos.",
   "author": "Neeldhara Misra",

sites/art/src/content/art/indiamini-crosswords/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Creating a Gallery of Solved Crosswords"
 description: "H/T Manu: I've discovered the India Mini Crossword series and it's a great two-to-five minute thing to solve every morning! Here's a little workflow I cobbled together to genera..."
 pubDate: "2024-05-10"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["workflows"]
 sourcePath: "indiamini-crosswords/index.qmd"
 ---

sites/art/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/poetry/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/poetry/src/content/poetry/poems/poetry/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Poetry"
 description: "collect your grief and inject it in words spill them on paper and shred it to tatters to piece yourself together ---"
 pubDate: "2024-01-01"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["poem"]
 sourcePath: "poems/poetry/index.qmd"
 ---

sites/puzzles/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/puzzles/src/content/puzzles/dogs-bunny-puzzle/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Dog Bunny Puzzle"
 description: "Dog Bunny: A Cute Puzzle Conrad Barski (@lisperati)'s latest, Dog Bunny Puzzle, had jumped to 1 on HN. The puzzle presents the following somewhat minimalist interface: If you ha..."
 pubDate: "2022-09-19"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["puzzles", "exposition"]
 sourcePath: "dogs-bunny-puzzle/index.qmd"
 ---

sites/reflections/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/reflections/src/content/reflections/on-career-choices/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "On Career Choices"
 description: "Tip A version of this article was featured in A Lesson from IIT , a column on the Indian Express. The link to the column is here, and this is the link to the present article. Ma..."
 pubDate: "2023-05-26"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["funda"]
 sourcePath: "on-career-choices/index.qmd"
 ---

sites/research/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/research/src/content/research/crypto-intro/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Intro to Crypto"
 description: "Caution Background This post is based on a series of lectures that Venkata Koppula gave at IIT Gandhiangar during the inter-IIT sports meet. Lecture 1: How to define security? N..."
 pubDate: "2023-12-21"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["talk", "exposition"]
 sourcePath: "crypto-intro/index.qmd"
 ---

sites/reviews/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/reviews/src/content/reviews/note-taking-resources/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Note Taking Resources"
 description: "Here is a list of courses, books, essays, youtube playlists, and other miscellany about taking notes, with the act interpreted broadly to include things like systems for filing,..."
 pubDate: "2023-06-02"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["lists"]
 sourcePath: "note-taking-resources/index.qmd"
 ---

sites/vibes/src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({

sites/vibes/src/content/vibes/13sheep/index.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "13 Sheep"
 description: "13 Sheep happens to be a cute roll-and-write game designed by Moritz Dressler that involves protecting a bunch of sheep on a grid by placing small fences that have pre-defined s..."
 pubDate: "2023-03-26"
 authorName: "Neeldhara"
+main-feature: true
 sourceCategories: ["games", "exposition"]
 sourcePath: "13sheep/index.qmd"
 ---

src/content/config.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const blogSchema = z.object({
   image: z.string().optional(),
   authorImage: z.string().optional(),
   authorName: z.string().optional(),
+  "main-feature": z.boolean().optional(),
+  mainFeature: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 const research = defineCollection({