build/qol/index.html


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
	<link rel="icon" href="data:,">
	<title>Quality of Life Improvements</title>
	<link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" />
	<link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" />
	<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style>
</head>

<nav>
	<a href="#menu">Menu &darr;</a>
</nav>

<main>
<h1 id="quality-of-life-improvements">Quality of Life Improvements</h1>
<p>2024-06-06</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t circled back to <code>barf</code> in quite a bit of time, so I&#8217;m happy to announce a small update mainly focused on quality of life improvements! I&#8217;ll keep things brief and get right into the core changes:</p>
<p><strong>Automatic detection of your operating system (supports Linux, macOS and OpenBSD currently)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>barf</code> now checks your current OS and sets aliases accordingly</li>
<li>this removes the need to hard-set your own aliases or run syslinks</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Added a semantically valid RSS feed</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>barf</code> initially launched with Atom support only, now a separate RSS feed is generated at build time</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Removed hardcoded feed links from <code>header.html</code></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You now only need to set your main domain at the top of the core <code>barf</code> file.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Swapped out <code>smu</code> for <code>lowdown</code></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The default Markdown parser is now set to <code>lowdown</code>. The original parser (<code>smu</code>) is great, but I wanted to make the project simpler by avoiding users to clone and build a separate package.</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s it really! I&#8217;ve also updated the original blog posts about setting up <code>barf</code> on macOS and OpenBSD to reflect these changes.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<footer role="contentinfo">
    <hr>
    <h3 id="menu">Menu Navigation</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="/about">About</a></li>
        <li><a href="/websites">Websites</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://git.btxx.org/barf">Source Code</a></li>
    </ul>
    <small>
        Feeds: <a href="/atom.xml">Atom</a> | <a href="/rss.xml">RSS</a> <br>
        Built with <a href="https://barf.btxx.org">barf</a>. <br>
        The <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bt/barf">code for this site</a> is MIT.
    </small>
</footer>